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Noun
preboding (uncountable)
- (archaic) Synonym of foreboding.
- 1844, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Heart (page 106)
- Thus, when with a nervous preboding Henry took up the "Watchman," […] he turned quite sick at heart to find the lying verdict run as follows […]
- 1891, The New England Magazine (page 433)
- It was with a pang of preboding that his nearest friends heard him announce, while he was doing what proved to be his last work for the press, that he was "going to kill Mrs. Partington."
- 1844, Martin Farquhar Tupper, Heart (page 106)
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