misboding

English

Verb

misboding

1. present participle and gerund of misbode

Adjective

misboding (comparative more misboding, superlative most misboding)

1. Feeling a sense of impending disaster.
   • 1816, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Il Ratto di Proserpina; or, the Rape of Proserpine:

     My panting heart Could not resist the strong misboding throbs, That rack'd my breast.

   • 1826, John Lingard, A History of England: From the First Invasion by the Romans:

     The tone of this letter convinced Somerset of the inutility of resistance : and with a misboding heart he invited his adversaries to Windsor '.

   • 1864, Charles Kent, Footprints on the Road, page 257:

     His thoughts appeared to recur perpetually to the same theme with a misboding iteration.

   • 1867, The loyalist's daughter, by a royalist, page 303:

     The king thus a prisoner in his own palace, with a misboding mind retired to rest a little before midnight.

Noun

misboding (plural misbodings)

1. A presentiment of something bad.
   • 1845, George Ayliffe Poole, A history of England, to the accession of queen Victoria:

     Still, with all his misbodings, and with the signs of disaffection everywhere, he could have been but imperfectly aware of what was daily and hourly passing in the Castle of Framlingham, on which the royal standard waved.

   • 1847, John MacHale, The Letters of the Most Reverend John Mac Hale, page 205:

     But the reality far surpasses my most gloomy misbodings.

   • 1853, J. Hector T. Courcelle, The Serf: A Play, in Five Acts, page 8:

     Yet this misboding which weighs on my brow Is a domestic ill.