0 present participle of presage
1 to show or suggest that something, often something unpleasant, will happen:
The troubled colossus was being turned briefly into a people's fun palace, its gloomy threat spirited away, presaging its recasting as the locus of democracy.
We could also make clear the need for an honest answer on the unemployment figures before the election, and an end to the lies that are presaging that election.
Now she seemed impelled to paint huge stark canvases in black and white, all of war or presaging war.
Additionally, he took on work for advertising and commercial illustration, presaging his focus on industrial photography two decades later.
In 1935, he was awarded the second-highest agrgation mark in the nation for philosophy, presaging a bright future.
There were also notable actions by women in wider society, presaging their wider engagement in politics which would come with the second wave.
A birth control movement developed during the 19th and early 20th centuries presaging the modern debate over women's body rights.
Presaging an era of state censorship and control of culture.
