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portent 

Ønoun
1 here was a striking portent of things to come 
OMEN, sign, indication, presage, warning, forewarning, harbinger, foreshadowing, augury, signal, promise, threat, menace, ill omen, forecast, prediction, prognostication, prophecy, straw in the wind, writing on the wall, hint, auspice, premonition, presentiment, feeling, vague feeling, funny feeling, feeling in one's bones, foreboding, misgiving;poetic/literary foretoken. 

2 the word ‘plague’ carries terrifying portent 
SIGNIFICANCE, importance, import, consequence, meaning, meaningfulness, moment, momentousness, weight, weightiness, cruciality