All 4 Uses of
omen
in
Catch-22
- There was a sinister and unlikely coincidence exposed that was too diabolical in implication to be anything less than the most hideous of omens.†
Chpt 21 *
- Colonel Cathcart was not superstitious, but he did believe in omens, and he sat right back down behind his desk and made a cryptic notation on his memorandum pad to look into the whole suspicious business of the Yossarians right away.†
Chpt 21
- He was tormented inexorably by morbid fantasies involving them, by dire, hideous omens of illness and accident.†
Chpt 25
- Here was an omen of unmistakable meaning.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(omen) a sign of something about to happen