Both Uses
presage
in
Gone with the Wind
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- She had heard that note in men's voices often enough to know that it presaged a declaration of love.†
Chpt 3.19 *presaged = served as a sign of something about to happen
- In the hospitals during the war she had seen too many faces wearing this pinched look not to know what it inevitably presaged.†
Chpt 5.61
Definitions:
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(1)
(presage) serve as a sign of something about to happen -- typically something bad
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)