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  • 1presentiment — (n.) 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 (Cf. sentient)) …

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  • 2presentiment — [prē zent′ə mənt, prizent′ə mənt] n. [MFr < pressentir, to have a presentiment of < L praesentire: see PRE & SENTIMENT] a feeling that something, esp. of an unfortunate or evil nature, is about to take place; foreboding …

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  • 3have a presentiment — index anticipate (prognosticate), expect (consider probable), presage Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 4presentiment — noun Etymology: French pressentiment, from Middle French, from pressentir to have a presentiment, from Latin praesentire to feel beforehand, from prae + sentire to feel more at sense Date: 1714 a feeling that something will or is about to happen… …

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  • 5forebode — v. a. 1. Foretell, predict, presage, portend, augur, betoken, foreshadow, foreshow, prognosticate, prefigure, be ominous of. 2. Foreknow, be prescient of, have foreknowledge of, have prescience of, have premonition of, have presentiment of,… …

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  • 6Kant: Critique of Judgement — Patrick Gardiner Kant’s third Critique, the Critique of Judgement, was published in 1790 and was intended as he himself put it to bring his “entire critical undertaking to a close.” So conceived, it was certainly in part designed to build upon… …

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  • 7Precognition — Premonition redirects here. For other meanings, see Premonition (disambiguation). Part of a series of articles on the paranormal Main articles Afterlife · Astral projection · Aura · Clairvoyance  …

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  • 8presage — presageful, adj. presagefully, adv. presager, n. n. /pres ij/; v. /pres ij, pri sayj /, n., v., presaged, presaging. n. 1. a presentiment or foreboding. 2. something that portends or foreshadows a future event; an omen, prognostic, or warning… …

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  • 9List of Emily Dickinson poems — This is a list of Emily Dickinson poems. There are 1,775 known poems that have been written by Dickinson. The poems are alphabetized by their first line. Punctuation, capitalization and even in some cases wording of the first lines may vary… …

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  • 10presage — noun /ˈprɛsɪdʒ / (say presij) 1. a presentiment or foreboding. 2. a prophetic impression. 3. something that portends or foreshadows a future event; an omen, prognostic, or warning indication: *The sky lowered more threateningly and the sea… …