1. presage - Noun
2. presage - Verb
Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.
To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.
To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.
Source: Webster's dictionarySmall opportunities often presage great enterprises. Demosthenes
The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them. Stephen R. Lawhead
Cold on Canadian hills or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent mourned her soldier slain; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew Gave the sad presage of his future years,- The child of misery, baptized in tears. John Langhorne (poet)
These signs bode bad news Source: Internet
he looked for an omen before going into battle Source: Internet
Hence an eventual outcome could be very difficult to presage unless one is looking at the pre -1990 division of the country into two countries or a federation or confederation of divergent split regions if the eventual political solution thus dictates. Source: Internet