precognizancen.

1726 tr. B. Gracián y Morales Hero xi. 125 They could not proceed, I say, but from an Instinct and certain Foresight,..from an internal Precognizance of their Success, and a Forecast of Conduct that facilitated it.

1856 W. M. Maxwell Hist. Church Scotl. App. 477/2 He could not have given to John Knox the same excuse which he took to himself, when he denied that ‘precognizance’ was in such a case equivalent to ‘art and part’.

1966 Coe Cosmos (Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 21 Oct. 1/5 Rhine cited three examples..to illustrate mental telepathy, communication from one mind to another by means beyond the ordinary, and clairvoyance, precognisance of an event.

2003 B. Clegg First Scientist ix. 182 He was..a man of his own time. But these rampant historians were so eager to disprove Bacon's precognizance that they dismissed his real, incredible achievements.