Obs. rare–1. [f. ABODE v. + -ANCE, a Romance affix added to a native word.] A foretelling, prefiguring, portending, omen.
c. 1630. Jackson, Creed, VII. xvii. (1844), VII. 133. It had been ‘verbum male ominatum,’ an ill abodance, if the first of these five Egyptian cities … should be called the City of destruction.
