0 a person or thing that shows that something is going to happen soon, especially something bad: --
a harbinger of doom
Can armies be agents of conflict resolution, harbingers of peace on earth?
The petite phrase, by turns mystery woman, confidante and national anthem - even, finally, a harbinger of doom - resists all such attempts at meaning-making.
A still more disruptive factor lies with the warming that is already overtaking the oceans-a probable harbinger of the greenhouse effect.
Moreover, discontinuity of consciousness undermines self-confidence at the deepest level; to an elderly person, a fit may seem a harbinger of death.
We arrive at where we began : matter is the harbinger of evil (cf. 2 above).
Communists, on the other hand, regarded the misery and degradation of the unemployed as welcome harbingers of a new social order.
This sample may provide a harbinger of how contemporary children will be affected by the 1996 welfare reform law.
However, while 'enlightenment ' may have been the harbinger of change, to characterize this change as leading to ' secularization ' would be too simplistic.
