presager
See also: présager
English
Etymology
Noun
presager (plural presagers)
- One who, or that which, presages; a foreteller; a foreboder.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 23”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- O let my books be then the eloquence
And dumb presagers of my speaking breast […]
References
- “presager”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.