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Prevision

noun

A prophetic vision (as in a dream).

The power to foresee the future. Synonym: prescience.

Seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing. Synonyms: farsightedness, foresight, prospicience.

The act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future). Synonyms: anticipation, prediction.

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... what business had he to resent it? But however he might ask himself rhetorical questions, the jealousy of the natural man swept over him in passion and fury. He said to himself that now he knew why he had always hated Ilbert. It was a prevision ...

— Mary Gray • Katharine Tynan

... wrote the invitations themselves and decided to deliver them in person, and Missy had no more prevision of all that decision meant than Juliet had when her mother concluded she would give the ball ...

— Missy • Dana Gatlin

... heart a store of prevision of which we are not aware—occasions bring it out with ...

— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace

... An experiment enabled this prevision to be verified. It was made, as is well known, as early as 1896 by Zeeman; and the discovery produced a legitimate sensation. When a flame is subjected to the action of a magnetic field, a brilliant line is decomposed in conditions more or less complex ...

— The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare

... vient de me telephoner pour me communiquer que la nouvelle lancee tout a l'heure de la mobilisation de l'armee et de la flotte allemandes est fausse; que les feuillets des journaux etaient imprimes d'avance en prevision de toutes eventualites, et mis en vente a l'heure de l'apres-midi, mais ...

— Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) • Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History

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