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presentiment|priːˈsɛntɪmənt, prɪˈzɛ-|
Also 8 præsentiment.
[a. obs. F. presentiment (Cotgr.): see pre- A. 2 and sentiment.]
1. A mental impression or feeling of a future event; a vague expectation resting on no definite reason, but seeming like a direct perception of something about to happen; an anticipation, foreboding (most commonly of something evil).
1714Mrs. Manley Adv. Rivella 71 Some Presentiment told me this agreeable Gentleman would certainly succeed. 1736Butler Anal. i. vi. 114 God..must have given us this discernment..as a Pre-sentiment of what is to be hereafter. 1761F. Sheridan Sidney Bidulph III. 340 She seemed to have a pre-sentiment of those evils. 1830Wordsw. Presentiments i, Presentiments! they judge not right Who deem that ye from open light Retire in fear of shame. 1884L. J. Jennings Croker Papers I. vi. 181 They appear to have had a sad presentiment of the truth.
2. A previously conceived sentiment or opinion; a prepossession. rare.
1751Chesterfield Lett. (1792) III. 109 You would not give people reason to change their favourable prae-sentiments of you. 1872Liddon Elem. Relig. ii. 49 The idea or presentiment of God, everywhere rooted in the mind of man.
Hence presentiˈmental a., of the nature of, expressing, or conveying a presentiment.
c1819Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1836) II. 242 The affecting beauty of the death of Cawdor and the presentimental speech of the King. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xiii, Amelia..thought somehow it was a mysterious and presentimental bell. |