Meaning of misbode | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To sense or foreshadow impending disaster.
2. To foreshadow the future incorrectly.

Examples

“So, on the other hand, when the Day of Grace is set⟳, 'tis easy to imagine⟳ how much that Conscience' that now misbodes and condemns us, will be filled with greater and intolerable Despair ;”

“My only desire to be with you, if possibly I could, is to knowe what you must not or dare not write⟳, for I misbode some greate matter⟳.”

“This was similar to the Rambam's comment⟳ that the prophets would be misboded when they would want⟳ to attain prophecy, suggesting a link⟳ between davening and the prophetic state.”

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