[ UK /pɹˈiːsi‍əns/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹiʃiəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. the power to foresee the future
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How To Use prescience In A Sentence

  • Furthermore inside his organization his prescience produced bonds of intense devotion and trust.
  • If we look simply at the magnitude of the results obtained, compared with the exiguity of the resources at command, -- if we remember that out of the small Kingdom of Sardinia grew united Italy, we must come to the conclusion that Count Cavour was undoubtedly a statesman of marvellous skill and prescience. The Ontario High School Reader
  • The storm is a law unto itself; nobody, not even a power of Cesaria ' s prescience, may control or predict it once it's in motion. GALILEE
  • If this exegesis, which takes the verb "foreknow" in the diluted sense of prescience, is not acceptable, what then, we may ask, is the meaning of foreknowledge? Possessing the Treasure
  • ‘Unbelievable,’ Federer said, dwelling on his prescience.
  • Dear Rachel, so delighted to hear your news (and slightly smug at my own prescience ). AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
  • In closing their Introduction, the editors of this handsome volume remark that "scholars of the novel everywhere owe a great debt to these innovative and creative minds that have ferreted out Jack London's predilictions and his prescience in such far-ranging and contemporary topics as gender-race, homosexuality, heterosexuality, humor, power, androgyny, and masculine identity. America's Greatest World Novel
  • Still he had a strange prescience , an intimation of something yet to come.
  • BERLIN — Octopus oracle Paul's prescience wasn't needed to predict how this one would turn out: His aquarium in Germany on Friday gave a resounding "nein" to a bid to move the celebrity mollusk to Spain. Germany Rejects Spanish Bid To Buy Paul The Octopus
  • The words may be considered either as a prediction depending on God's prescience of what will be; or a commination from his just judgment of what shall be. The Sermons of John Owen
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