portension

English

Alternative forms

• portention

Etymology

Compare portent.

Noun

portension (countable and uncountable, plural portensions)

1. The act of foreshowing; foreboding.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     the red Comets do carry the portensions of Mars

References

• “portension”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• pontoniers, prenotions, protension