Citations:omenic

English citations of omenic

Adjective: "(rare) Having the quality of an omen; carrying ominous or prophetic significance."

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• 1877, R. Elton Smile, chapter 1, in The Manatitlans; Or a Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S.A.‎^[1], page 445:

  This scene impressed us all with its omenic signification, so that we could scarcely wonder that Isolita in her great sorrow received it as a presage of vehicular translation, to be treasured as a token of animus visitations from her departed unity in the flesh.

• 2001, William Gwin, The Night Watchman, Xlibris Corporation, page 78:

  Ancient people, and numerous moderns considered the omenic aspects of a dream, the Fragmentations of a Dream Foretold, a manuscript he had once seen was called.

• 2009, Lee Murphy, Get That Kid Outta Here...!, AuthorHouse, page vii:

  Still, despite the advantage of a mind formidable beyond the hours and minutes of my new life, I could not yet fully grasp the omenic meaning of Japan's occupation of Shanghai, or how 6-million unemployed Germans and the Nazis would help lead a march toward world war.

• 2023, Kerry O'Brien, William Robin, On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement, University of California Press, page 266:

  So again I'd have to say that all the messages that the gods—I'm very omenic, I ask the gods every day what do you think I should do? And every day the gods began to tell me "A$$HOLE A$$HOLE there's nothing to do, there's only the big bad world and the ancient world and there's nothing in between." And so, for the last ten years I did nothing, and now I'm trying to do something, I'm trying to. But I don't know why, and again, I'm very omenic, and so I'm taking this interview omenically.