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presignifying

presignifying is the present participle and gerund of presignify.

Meaning of presignify

Verb

presignify (third-person singular simple present presignifies, present participle presignifying, simple past and past participle presignified)

  1. (transitive) To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.
    • That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23

Questions about presignifying

What is presignifying the present participle and gerund of?
Presignifying is the present participle and gerund of presignify.

Words near presignifying in the dictionary

  1. presignification
  2. presignifications
  3. presignified
  4. presignifies
  5. presignify
  6. presignifying
  7. presigning
  8. presigns
  9. presiliconize
  10. presiliconized
  11. presimian

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