Misbode
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Misbode is a verb meaning To sense or foreshadow impending disaster.
Meaning
To sense or foreshadow impending disaster.
More Meanings
- To foreshadow the future incorrectly.
Example Sentences
My only desire to be with you, if possibly I could, is to knowe what you must not or dare not write, for I misbode some greate matter.
This was similar to the Rambam's comment that the prophets would be misboded when they would want to attain prophecy, suggesting a link between davening and the prophetic state.
So, on the other hand, when the Day of Grace is set, 'tis easy to imagine how much that Conscience' that now misbodes and condemns us, will be filled with greater and intolerable Despair ;
Word Forms
- misbodes
- misboding
- misboded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include misdoom, misbefall, mistide, misgive, misordain, misforecast.
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