Definition of "portending" []

• Present participle of portend. (verb)

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• "He christens his hero Marco Stanley Fogg, a name portending lots of onomastic exposition and tales of playground cruelty, and then spends pages giving us just that."
• "That labeling of the 1950s was in retrospect misleading, because unlike the ecstatic enthusiasms of earlier awakenings, the postwar surge was channeled primarily through conventional and even establishment institutions, portending no great revolution, either civil or religious."
• "The trees had lost most of their leaves, and the air was brisk and portending the changing weather."