portent in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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Translations for portent in the Spanish»English Dictionary (Go to English»Spanish)

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Several leaders claim to have chosen sides or determined battle strategy after scrying or receiving visions, portents, or prophetic dreams.
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It was a little army and a little battle, but it was of mighty portent.
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The appearance of a ghost has often been regarded as an omen or portent of death.
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A second portent was the appearance of the head of a man to workmen digging the foundations of the temple.
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In both stories, colors have an ominous importance and the strangers are both portents of death and destruction.
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So struck was she by the portent contained in the timber of the bridge that she fell on her knees and reverenced it.
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Omens and portents, he believed, are the natural symptoms of certain occurrences.
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The smoke rising from the chimney of the coffee house connects these portents to the scene below.
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These new signs are omens or portents not previously observed, or not observed under the particular set of circumstances at hand.
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For we say that all portents are contrary to nature; but they are not so.
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