noun
- plural of boding; signs or omens that suggest something bad will happen; premonitions or forebodings
Usage: usually used in plural form; often literary or formal
Examples
- The dark clouds and strange silence filled her with ill bodings about the coming storm.
- Ancient peoples interpreted natural events as bodings of future events.
- He dismissed the bodings of his anxious friends as mere superstition.
- The bodings that preceded the disaster were later seen as clear warnings.
- She felt vague bodings of trouble ahead, though she could not explain why.
- The soothsayer's bodings proved accurate when the prophecy came to pass.