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Premonition   /prɛmənˈɪʃən/   Listen
Premonition

noun
1.
A feeling of evil to come.  Synonyms: boding, foreboding, presentiment.  "The lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"
2.
An early warning about a future event.  Synonym: forewarning.






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"Premonition" Quotes from Famous Books



... premonition of what would next be missing, he went into the surgery. A case of silver-mounted surgical instruments had vanished from a shelf, with a presentation loving-cup, given by admirers among De Boursy-Williams's patients to that gifted practitioner. A ...
— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... great difference between a government wholly agreeable to him and one reconstituted to meet the demand of the younger and more vigorous elements in the party. In 1909, in a letter to a supporter who had lost the party nomination for his constituency, he gave premonition of his own fate: "What has happened to you in your county will happen to me before long in Canada. Let us submit with ...
— Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics • J. W. Dafoe

... answered Blake, a shade discomfited. "But I want not for excuse. I have it in the matter that brings me here." So solemn was his air, so sober his voice, that both girls felt a premonition of the untoward message that he bore. It was Ruth who asked ...
— Mistress Wilding • Rafael Sabatini

... brimstone in which his heart had so long been burning up. For the tables were turned at last: the weak one, the inferior, had become the stronger, the better. A thousand wounds seemed to heal themselves in him as he contemplated the prostration of the enemy whom he had hated, just from premonition, even before his appearance. There was true madness in that look, arising from the long privation, the interminable jealousy, the consequent monomania of revenge. "He will die," he reflected, gloating ...
— Sacrifice • Stephen French Whitman

... the child's thin exposed body—suddenly frozen into a deathlike sleep—chilled with a vision, a premonition, the insidious possibility of surrender. He saw, too, that it was a solitary struggle; even his devotion to Flavilla, shut in the single space of his own heart, helped to isolate him in what resembled a surrounding blackness rent with ...
— The Happy End • Joseph Hergesheimer


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