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- Every morning, in every official temple throughout Radchaai space, a priest (who doubles as a registrar of births and deaths and contracts of all kinds) casts the day's omens.†
p. 43.4omens = signs of what will happen in the future
- Then Lieutenant Awn would lay out the cloth for the omencasting and the omens themselves, a handful of weighty metal disks.†
p. 44.1
- Once the omens fell, and came to rest on the cloth (or, to any spectators' dread, rolled off the cloth and away somewhere harder to interpret), the priest officiating was supposed to identify the pattern, match it with its associated passage of scripture, and recite that for those present.†
p. 44.4
- So instead she tossed the omens, I observed their fall, and then I transmitted the appropriate words to her.†
p. 44.6
- This icon, and this set of omens.†
p. 142.1
- The omens had been cast, and their trajectories were straightforward, calculable, direct, and clear.†
p. 152.6 *
- Sometimes, when omens are cast, one flies or rolls off where you didn't expect and throws the whole pattern out of shape.†
p. 152.8
- All of it struck me as unlikely, but the omens would fall as Amaat intended.†
p. 199.4
- The omens will fall where they fall.†
p. 322.8
- The omens that had been in the air for twenty years were about to come down and show me—show Anaander Mianaai—what pattern they made.†
p. 327.2
- The omen Stillness had flipped, become Movement.†
p. 328.2omen = sign of something about to happen
- Another long-lost omen fetching up at my feet.†
p. 331.8
- "Carry the message as quickly as you can, as far as you can," I said, "and let the omens fall as they will.†
p. 354.5omens = signs of what will happen in the future
- I wondered if the image of foreign piety I'd constructed had convinced her I had some sort of faith, or if she was merely too Radchaai not to think the toss of a handful of omens would answer any pressing question, persuade me toward the right action.†
p. 379.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(omen) a sign of something about to happen
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)