prodromous
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
noun
A sign of something to come; a harbinger.
Example Sentences
- "Prodromous Clouds whose edges are fringed with Gold, comfort us with the hopes of an approaching greater Light, which when the Sun is up, do but darken the Horizon."
- "Thus we have a Day-star to tell us that day is at hand; something prodromous concerning almost all the great things promised, and looked for, as might be more largely showne, if that were my proper work."
- "Altogether the Lists given int he present Chapter should be accepted as they are offered, simply in a prodromous character ."
- "Where the second eye was quite free from prodromous symptoms, Græfe has seen it frequently affected shortly after operation on the first, somewhere about 10 per cent."
- "They were characterized in the prodromous period by the severity of the pain in the head and back, great prostration of strength, anxiety, agitation, stupor, and sometimes by delirium."
- "This constitutes its first stage; one from which recovery is the genral rule, —so general, in fact, that I have never known of its being considered by any one as a condition antecedent to alveolar necrosis, and still it is uniformly prodromous to it in all except its traumatic or purely organic types."