presentiment
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tə noun
a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something evil; foreboding.
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| —n | |
| a sense of something about to happen; premonition | |
| [C18: from obsolete French, from pressentir to sense beforehand; see | |
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Word Origin & History
presentiment
1714, from Fr. presentiment, from M.Fr. pressentir "to have foreboding," from L. præsentire "to sense beforehand," from præ "before" + sentire "perceive, feel" (see sentient).
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Example sentences
Iv this ease the presentiment of evil was too surely justified.
In this case the presentiment of evil was but too surely justified.
And they have presentiment of the invisible powers before they have understanding of them.
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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