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US
/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
- 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
- We are fascinated by the idea of premonition, oracles and anything that would allow a sneak peak at the unknown. Buzzine » Joe Manganiello Interview
- The form and content are as rigid and unchangeable as a Petrarchan sonnet or a Noh play, starting with a young person having a premonition of a catastrophic accident that saves the lives of a number of people, most of them from his own circle. Final Destination 5 – review
- Marriage is a very real commitment and is devoid of the romantic notions and premonitions we have about it, and that we carry before engagement.
- Perhaps he had a premonition about what might happen in London.
- Settling in his chair, Richard inwardly frowned and struggled to shake off the premonition Seamus's opening paragraph had evoked. SCANDAL'S BRIDE
- This uniter, unity, or One, is the premonitor whence exists the premonition Unity, which so recurrently becomes conscious in man. Uncollected Prose
- She glanced at Bev and realized her friend was worried about the premonition.
- Was it some physicalised premonition and I'm going to accidentally cut my hand off this evening?
