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Definition of Ill-omened
1. Adjective. Marked by or promising bad fortune. "The unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"
Definition of Ill-omened
1. Adjective. Having a bad omen; inauspicious; unlucky. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ill-omened
Literary usage of Ill-omened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, John Allen Giles (1854)
"In this year, too, the inveterate hatred aroused by that second Medea, the
ill-omened countess of Flanders, ..."
2. Historical memoirs of my own time by Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall (1904)
"After defending, article by article, the Treaties concluded ; he finished by
deprecating " the "ill omened and baneful alliance" which had just taken place ..."
3. Daniel Webster by Samuel Walker McCall (1902)
"And then there is that ill-omened, thing which, wherever else it may be found,
is sure to attend greatness. The baleful goddess of Detraction sits ever at ..."
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