Both Uses of
portend
in
King Lear
- These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects: love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son and father.†
Scene 1.2
- —O, these eclipses do portend these divisions! fa, sol, la, mi.†
Scene 1.2 *
Definition:
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(portend) indicate by signs that something is going to happen -- especially something bad