Definition of "presage" [pre•sage]

• An indication or warning of a future occurrence; an omen. (noun)
• A feeling or intuition of what is going to occur; a presentiment. (noun)
• Prophetic significance or meaning. (noun)
• Archaic A prediction. (noun)
• To indicate or warn of in advance; portend. (verb-transitive)

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• "He is haughty and imperious: He is a proud man, and his pride is a certain presage of his fall coming on."
• "Proud men are frequently most proud, and insolent, and haughty, just before their destruction, so that it is a certain presage that they are upon the brink of it."
• "Note, Pride will have a fall; it is the certain presage and forerunner of it."