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Definition of Omen
Omen

An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury.

To divine or to foreshow by signs or portents; to have omens or premonitions regarding; to predict; to augur; as, to omen ill of an enterprise.

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Omen Quotations

Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
Homer

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.
Edward Irving

With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic.
Richard Donner

The Exorcist doesn't get me, but The Omen does.
Ethan Embry

Omen Translations

omen in Dutch is teken, voorteken, voorbode
omen in German is Vorbedeutung
omen in Latin is praenuntius, monstrum


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