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presentiment

[ pri-zen-tuh-muhnt ]

noun

  1. a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something evil; foreboding.


presentiment

/ ɪˈɛԳɪəԳ /

noun

  1. a sense of something about to happen; premonition
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·t·Գa adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of presentiment1

1705–15; < French, now obsolete spelling of pressentiment. See pre-, sentiment
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of presentiment1

C18: from obsolete French, from pressentir to sense beforehand; see pre- , sentiment
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It’s the type of hazards and presentiment that feel inherent to womanhood.

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By late 2016, the seeming permanence of her move is threatened by apocalyptic presentiments unleashed by election anxiety.

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Mrs. Hubble shook her head, and contemplating me with a mournful presentiment that I should come to no good, asked, “Why is it that the young are never grateful?”

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I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my own.

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Writing later of the bizarre extravaganza that took place that summer, de Coubertin said: “I had a sort of presentiment that the Olympiad would match the mediocrity of the town.”

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