Presentiment
[prɪ'zentɪm(ə)nt;-'sen-] or [prɪ'zɛntɪmənt]
Definition
(n.) Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Foreboding.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Foreboding, foretaste, forethought, prescience, forecast, anticipation
ANT:Surprise, inexpectancy, miscalculation
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Definition
n. a sentiment or feeling beforehand: previous opinion: an impression as of something unpleasant soon to happen.
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Examples
- I have a presentiment that it must be a girl. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- She had felt an early presentiment that she _should_ like the eldest best. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Away with evil presentiment! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I have a presentiment that he WILL mention it the first thing this morning. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I have a presentiment that if no other innocent atonement is made for this, it will one day be required of him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Amelia shrank and started; the timid soul felt a presentiment of terror when she heard that the relations of the child's father had seen him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Even Caesar's fortune at one time was, but a grand presentiment. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- However, my tenderest feelings are about to receive a shock: such is my presentiment; stay now, to see whether it will be realised. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I have a presentiment that he is bringing trouble and misery with him into the house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Cold and peculiar, I knew it for the partner of a rarely-belied presentiment. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- That's a bad presentiment, mother. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- She had no presentiment that the power which her husband wished to establish over her future action had relation to anything else than his work. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- A presentiment of ill hung over her. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I had a presentiment that you would come this evening. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I feared madness, not sickness--I have a presentiment that Adrian will not die; perhaps this illness is a crisis, and he may recover. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Of the presentiments which some people are always having, some surely must come right. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts, as they do of their deformed children. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- These tokens of the Serjeant's presentiments on the subject, slight as they were, were not lost on Mr. Pickwick. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my own. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- For many days I have longed to disclose the mysterious presentiments that weigh on me, although I fear that you will ridicule them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Do you ever have presentiments, Mr Flintwinch? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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