noun
- plural of bodement; signs or omens that suggest something will happen in the future
Usage: archaic or literary; usually plural
Examples
- The dark clouds were seen as bodements of the coming storm.
- Ancient peoples interpreted bodements in the flight of birds.
- She dismissed the bodements as mere superstition.
- The bodements of disaster proved accurate when the earthquake struck.
- Scholars studied the bodements recorded in medieval texts.