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prescience

[presh-uhns, -ee-uhns, pree-shuhns, -shee-uhns] / ˈprɛʃ əns, -i əns, ˈpri ʃəns, -ʃi əns /
NOUN
foresight
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
omniscience prediction


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Prescience has always been part of this action-thriller’s hold on the imagination.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 20, 2025

The King's Speech was backed by UK financier Prescience and owes all its international success to the New York-based foreign sales agency FilmNation.

From The Guardian • Feb. 21, 2011

Let it not find thee in that perilous hour, Prescience forebodes thee, at some lady's ear Sighing unhallowed love.—Its malice then Harms not thy breast, another bears the stroke!

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John

"Prescience, predetermination and infinite benevolence are no argument against prayer to the Deity."

From Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever by Turner, Matthew

Prescience, prē′shi-ens, n. knowledge of events beforehand: foresight.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various




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