All 3 Uses of
foreboding
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Pestilence was known to have been foreboded by a shower of crimson light.†
p. 143.4 *foreboded = warned (before hand) that something bad would happen
- Hester could not but ask herself whether there had not originally been a defect of truth, courage, and loyalty on her own part, in allowing the minister to be thrown into a position where so much evil was to be foreboded and nothing auspicious to be hoped.†
p. 154.3
- Yes; their minister whom they so loved—and who so loved them all, that he could not depart heavenward without a sigh—had the foreboding of untimely death upon him, and would soon leave them in their tears.†
p. 232.4foreboding = a feeling that something bad is going to happen