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presentiment
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synonyms: presage ???
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Definition:a foreboding intuition about the future; a premonition
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"Yes; but it all depends on him. Now I must go to him," she said shortly. Her presentiment that all would again go on in the old way had not deceived her.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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I had a presentiment that I should never be there again, and I felt that the dying light was suited to my last view of it.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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I have neither a fear, nor a presentiment, nor a hope of death. Why should I?
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Although surprised, Govinda was compelled by a great love and presentiment to obey him;
Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha (Translated by Hilda Rosner), p.149 (1951)
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