单词 | presentiment |
释义 | presentimentn. 1. An intuitive feeling about the future; an expectation or mental impression of something about to happen, esp. one with no apparent or definite foundation; a foreboding, esp. of misfortune or something evil. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > premonition, presentiment > [noun] > instance of boding1297 pricking of (also in) one's thumbsa1398 sense1549 presagition?c1550 forefeeling1551 aboding1579 bode1587 foresignification1592 presage1597 prevention1601 bodement1642 presentiment1663 forebodea1680 forebodement1755 omening1796 bodeword1832 forefeel1839 hunch1904 1663 J. D. tr. H. de Péréfixe de Beaumont Hist. Henry IV iii. 229 She with no small grief parted from him, recommending to him her Children with tears in her eyes, as if she had some secret presentiment [Fr. un secret presentiment]; telling him that she should never more see him. 1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier New Relation Seraglio xi. 61 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) As for the opportunity of making an escape out of Turkey, by any one who might have some presentiment of his destruction, it is to no purpose to think of it. 1714 D. Manley Adventures of Rivella 71 Some Presentiment told me this agreeable Gentleman would certainly succeed. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. vi. 114 [God] must have given us this Discernment..as a Pre-sentiment of what is to be hereafter. 1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph II. 415 She seemed to have a pre-sentiment of those evils. 1801 H. Lee Canterbury Tales IV. 376 I had an ugly presentiment of what was to be the subject of our conversation. 1830 W. Wordsworth Presentiments i Presentiments! they judge not right Who deem that ye from open light Retire in fear of shame. 1884 L. J. Jennings in Croker Papers I. vi. 181 They appear to have had a sad presentiment of the truth. 1948 J. Rosenberg Rembrandt I. ii. 55 Hendrickje's expression here betrays a presentiment of her approaching end. 1978 I. Berlin Russian Thinkers 28 His earlier phase, which is felt to be full of presentiments of the later life. 1990 C. Holland Bear Flag (1992) xlv. 336 Larkin's neck tingled with a presentiment of catastrophe. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > [noun] > instance of prejudgementa1538 prejudice1563 preconceit1593 preconceptiona1631 prepossession1638 presentiment1751 unconscious bias1784 sizeism1971 1751 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 4 Feb. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1672 You would not give people reason to change their favourable presentiments of you. 1806 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 1192 What I now feel is only a very strong presentiment of their Truth and Importance aided by a thorough conviction of the hollowness of all other Systems. 1872 H. P. Liddon Some Elements Relig. ii. 49 The idea or presentiment of God, everywhere rooted in the mind of man. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1663 |
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