Harbinger

Definitions

1. A person or thing that foreshadows or foretells the coming of someone or something.
2. One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to provide and prepare lodgings.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“harbinger of danger; harbinger of doom; harbinger of spring⟳”

“Make⟳ all our Trumpets ſpeak, giue thẽ all breath / Thoſe clamorous Harbingers of Blood, & Death”

“I knew by these harbingers who were coming.”

“It’s to realize⟳ that Moon Frye, by cheerfully surveilling her own⟳ life, and those first Real Worlders, by agreeing to the constant presence of producers and cameras, were the harbingers of today’s culture, in which self-image is shaped in the expectation of a lens and personhood collates with brand identity.”

“outward decency […] is the Harbinger to provide⟳ the lodging for inward holinesse”

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