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foreboding (n.)
late 14c., "a predilection, portent, omen," from
fore-
+ verbal noun from
bode
. Meaning "sense of something bad about to happen" is from c. 1600. Old English equivalent form
forebodung
meant "prophecy." Related:
Forebodingly
.