To serve as a warning or omen of.
A kingdom they portend thee, but what kingdom, / Real or allegoric, I discern not; Nor when: eternal sure--as without end,
To signify; to denote.
Let it be known that the Rapture portends the End of Days.
Borrowed from Latin portendere (“to foretell”), from por- (“forward”) + tendere (“to stretch”).
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