presentiment
Example Sentences
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Presentiment that long shadow passes over, and we are the startled grass.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
"Presentiment of ill."—Marmont tells us what this was.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe
Presentiment indeed it is, but not at all supernatural.
From Charlotte Bront? A Monograph by Reid, T. Wemyss
Presentiment "My Sister" Cometh a voice from a far-land!
From Poems: Patriotic, Religious by Ryan, Abram Joseph
Presentiment, foreboding, omen become the essential tissue of works that are lifted by them into the higher realm of imagination.
From Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir
Vocabulary lists containing presentiment
Common Senses: Sent, Sens ("Feel")
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Grade 12, List 6
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Jane Eyre
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