augury
- n an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
he hoped it was an augury
- If the failure of the police to prevent the Marriott bombing is any augury of what is to come, Jakarta may be in for a long, losing season.
- Only later, in France, did Deng Xiansheng become Deng Xiaoping, the two new syllables a prescient nom de guerre, literally meaning "little peace," an augury of both tumult and .
- Such augury has been on the rise since last month's announcement that Shanghai's Communist Party Secretary Chen Liangyu a protg of Jiang had been dismissed from his .