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/pɹɛməˈnɪʃən/
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[ UK /pɹɪmənˈɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /pɹɪmənˈɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- an early warning about a future event
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a feeling of evil to come
a steadily escalating sense of foreboding
the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case
How To Use premonition In A Sentence
- Leaving London they went to Paris, where they passed a few days, but soon grew weary of the place; and Lord Chetwynde, feeling a kind of languor, which seemed to him like a premonition of disease, he decided to go to Germany. The Cryptogram A Novel
- I had that thing called a premonition that something was dreadfully wrong. CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2005
- From the blank look on his face, Stone had a premonition that he wouldn't see any change. CORMORANT
- In the perfectly motionless flattened sphere, without the shimmer of premonition and with inconceivable suddenness, a white cross smites itself, as it were, through the sarcode. Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
- The prince searches for her through the white night of St. Petersburg, his mind full of confusion, premonitions and anxiety, as on the eve of an attack.
- He was sitting in the new, renovated bathroom with the unmistakable premonition that now he was going to be sick.
- Despite grim premonitions that digital piracy is destroying the movie industry, last year saw the highest box-office returns in Hollywood history-a record owing no small debt to the superhero movie, a genre that appears to be recessionproof: keeping studios in business with billion-dollar returns ( Undefined
- This uniter, unity, or One, is the premonitor whence exists the premonition Uncollected Prose
- We especially fear being constrained by our bodies, because every fleshly constraint is a premonition of death, the final limit our physicality places on our ambitions.
- My cousin's wife spent last night talking about horrible premonitions and it didn't take much to convince my cousin that they would be better off at home.