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presentiment
noun as in anticipation, expectation
Example Sentences
He was left, he later confessed, with a “presentiment—a secret conviction...that I am destined for terrible trials.”
I persuaded myself that I knew he was taken; that there was something more upon my mind than a fear or a presentiment; that the fact had occurred, and I had a mysterious knowledge of it.
For 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.
Mrs. Hubble shook her head, and contemplating me with a mournful presentiment that I should come to no good, asked, “Why is it that the young are never grateful?”
However, my tenderest feelings are about to receive a shock: such is my presentiment; stay now, to see whether it will be realised.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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