noun
- The act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand.
- synonyms: prefiguration, adumbration
verb
- Indicate by signs.
- usage: "These signs bode bad news"
adjective
- Indistinctly prophetic.
- synonyms: adumbrative, prefigurative
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