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portensions

portensions is the plural of portension.

Meaning of portension

Noun

portension (countable and uncountable, plural portensions)

  1. The act of foreshowing; foreboding.
    • the red Comets do carry the portensions of Mars1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Questions about portensions

What is portensions the plural of?
Portensions is the plural of portension.

Words near portensions in the dictionary

  1. portendment
  2. portendments
  3. Portendorfer
  4. portends
  5. portension
  6. portensions
  7. portent
  8. portention
  9. portentions
  10. portentious
  11. portentive

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