1. a sign or indication of something that will happen in the future; an omen or portent
Usage: archaic or literary

Examples

• The dark clouds were seen as a bodement of the coming storm.
• Ancient peoples interpreted unusual animal behavior as a bodement of future events.
• The sudden silence in the forest felt like a bodement of danger.
• She regarded the broken mirror as an ill bodement.
• The prophet spoke of bodements that would come to pass.