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Webster 1913 Edition


Abodement

A-bode′ment

(-ment)
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Noun.
A foreboding; an omen.
[Obs.]
Abodements must not now affright us.”
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


Abodement

ABO'DEMENT

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Noun.
[from body.] A secret anticipation of something future.

Definition 2024


abodement

abodement

English

Noun

abodement (plural abodements)

  1. (obsolete) A foreboding; an omen. [Attested from the late 16th century to the mid 17th century.][1]
    • 1591, Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part III, IV-vii:
      Abodements must not now affright us.

References

  1. Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 6