Premonitory
[prɪ'mɑnə,tori]
Definition
(a.) Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease.
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Examples
- It wanted five minutes to twelve, when the premonitory symptoms of the working of the laudanum first showed themselves to me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- This was one of the finest homes in the city of that period, and its acquisition was a premonitory sign of the surrender of the famous residential avenue to commerce. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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