[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That forebodes, in senses of the vb.
1679. Everard, Popish Plot, 7. By a fore-boding guilt they knew perfectly, and heard I had grounds enough wherewith to accuse them.
1795. Burke, Th. Scarcity, Wks. 1842, II. 257. I can never quote France without a foreboding sigh—ΕΣΕΤΑΙ ἩΜΑΡ!
1860. Pusey, The Minor Prophets, 486. The Holy Ghost, Who spake by the mouth of the prophets, willed that he by a foreboding name should be called Haggai, i. e. ‘festive,’ according to the subject whereof He should speak by his mouth.
Hence Forebodingly adv.; Forebodingness.
1801. Coleridge, Lett., in Mrs. Sandford, T. Poole & Friends (1888), II. 48. My gloom and forebodingness respecting pecuniary affairs.
1823. New Monthly Mag., VIII. 284. He gave me a squeeze of the hand, which was forebodingly forcible.
1857. W. Collins, Dead Secret, III. ii. (1861), 79. Her head shaking forebodingly from time to time.
