bode vs presage

bode

noun
  • An omen; a foreshadowing. 

  • A stop; a halting; delay. 

  • A herald; a messenger. 

verb
  • simple past tense of bide 

  • To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future. 

  • To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell. 

presage

noun
  • A warning of a future event; an omen. 

  • An intuition of a future event; a presentiment. 

verb
  • To make a prediction. 

  • To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow. 

  • To predict or foretell something. 

How often have the words bode and presage occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )