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Portension
- - The act of foreshowing; foreboding.
Portentive
- - Presaging; foreshadowing.
Portfolios
- noun - a large, flat, thin case for carrying loose papers or drawings or maps; usually leather; "he remembered her because she was carrying a large portfolio"
- a list of the financial assets held by an individual or a bank or other financial institution; "they were disappointed by the poor returns on their stock portfolio"
- a set of pieces of creative work collected to be shown to potential customers or employers; "the artist had put together a portfolio of his work"; "every actor has a portfolio of photographs"
- the role of the head of a government department; "he holds the portfolio for foreign affairs"
Portioning
- verb - give out; "We were assigned new uniforms"
Portionist
- - A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster.
Porto Rico
- noun - a self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico
- the smallest and easternmost of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean
Portraying
- verb - a representation by picture or portraiture
- assume or act the character of; "She impersonates Madonna"; "The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man"
- make a portrait of; "Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba"
- portray in words; "The book portrays the actor as a selfish person"
- represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture; "The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting"
Positivism
- noun - a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness
- the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
Positivist
- adjective - of or relating to positivism; "positivist thinkers"; "positivist doctrine"; "positive philosophy"
- someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes
Positivity
- noun - a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness
- an amount greater than zero
- the character of the positive electric pole
- the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome
- the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about