Both Uses of
foreboding
in
The Idiot
- Though the position of all of us at that time was not particularly brilliant, and the poverty was dreadful all round, yet the etiquette at court was strictly preserved, and the more strictly in proportion to the growth of the forebodings of disaster.†
Chpt 4.4forebodings = feelings that bad things are going to happen
- Enraged at this idea, he started up, crossed the dark passage (which filled him with horrible impressions and gloomy forebodings), and set out once more for Rogojin's.†
Chpt 4.11 *
Definition:
a feeling that something bad is going to happen