Synonymer & Anagrammer | engelsk ord PORTENT

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• An omen (also called portent) is a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of change.
• In Islam, the country's majority religion at 94% percent of the population, the green of both the first stripe and the star represent the colour of the Prophet, Christians see the presence of green as a portent of hope, and Animists (or adherers to Traditional African religions) view green as representative of fecundity.
• In Brittany, they can be an ominous portent, foretelling death, either one's own or a death in the family, though it is rare, just like they are not always represented as old women, though they always have very pale skin, being creatures of the night, and are often dressed in white or in traditional clothing.
• Portent (divination), a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future, also known as an omen or presage.
• The word lych survived into modern English from the Old English or Saxon word for "corpse", mostly as an adjective in particular phrases or names, such as lych bell, the hand-bell rung before a corpse; lych way, the path along which a corpse was carried to burial (this in some districts was supposed to establish a right-of-way); lych owl, the screech owl, because its cry was a portent of death; and lyke-wake, a night watch over a corpse (see Lyke-Wake Dirge).
• These layoffs were viewed by some as a portent of the difficulties that the Seekonk store (as well as her sister A&H stores) would experience in a cut-throat regional market throughout the 1990s.
• It’s possible that someone in the future will delve deeply into The Golden Age and find the portent of Sly Stone’s There’s a Riot Going On.
• It lurched about clunkily, with dissonant power chords punctuating stretches of Debussy-like shimmer and brass chorales, mistaking ugliness for portent.
• These works, in addition to those listed above, include In the Midst of Earth (1969), The Peppersalt Land (1970), The Runaway's Diary (1971), The Conjurers (1974), Bledding Sorrow (1976), The Portent (1980), The Last Great Love (1981), The Diviner (1983), Warrick (1985), Night Games (1987), and Lost and Found (1991).
• A Scow activity resumed after the war, but more significant as a portent of things to come was the growth in the fleets of smaller Class D and F scows, and in the Lightning class.
• After interpreting a portent for the people of Samos, Aesop is given his freedom and acts as an emissary between the Samians and King Croesus.
• In 1987, during Australia's tours of Ireland and England, Annetts scored her second half-century during the Third ODI against Ireland, before making a century against Surrey, including a 184-second-wicket partnership with Lindsay Reeler, a portent of things to come.
• His attitudes and inspiration for his missions could have been due to his belief in Premillennialism or Millennialism, and the famine was a portent.
• If a sign had been recognized as foreboding, the gods Ea and his son Asalluḫi, Šamaš, the sun god and god of justice (mīšaru), and often the deity, in whose sphere of influence the prognostication had occurred - were invoked, and offered a meal of bread, meat, dates, incense, water and beer to appease the source of the portent and effect a change in outcome.
• The descriptions often include the comet's name, notes about its apparition, and its associated portent, usually military, but lack detailed dates of the comets' sightings.
• " Lisa Alspector of the Chicago Reader wrote that the film is "a portent of the time when gay lead characters will be plentiful enough that they’re no longer required to be role models or political icons—Matt’s an old-fashioned schlemiel in a half-hokey, half-serious story whose slapstick and reeking scatological humor provide some childish delight.

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