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Aug. 08, 2016
presentiment\pri-ZEN-tuh-muh nt\noun
1. a feeling or impression that something is about to happen,
especially something evil; foreboding.
Quotes... the good lady set that question entirely at rest, by
informing them that she had apresentiment on the subject--a species of
second-sight with which she had been in the habit of clinching every
argument with the deceased Mr Nickleby, and in nine cases and
three-quarters out of every ten, determining it the wrong way.
-- Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, 1839
Origin of presentimentPresentiment is a loanword from French,
stemming from the obsolete verb pressentirmeaning "to sense
beforehand." It entered English in the late 1600s.More From
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