Definition of Prehensions

1. Noun. (plural of prehension) ¹

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Definition of Prehensions

1. prehension [n] - See also: prehension

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prehensions

preheater
preheaters
preheating
preheats
prehellenic
prehend
prehended
prehending
prehends
prehensible
prehensile
prehensilely
prehensilities
prehensility
prehension
prehensions (current term)
prehensory
preheritance
preheritances
preherpetic
prehiatus
prehilbert space
prehilbert spaces
prehire
prehiring
prehispanic
prehistorian
prehistorians
prehistoric
prehistoric age

Literary usage of Prehensions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and by Andrew Kippis, William Godwin, George Robinson (1816)
"... entertained by th: People respecting National Property—Ground of these Ap- prehensions— ... prehensions ..."

2. The works of Thomas Goodwin by Thomas Goodwin (1865)
"Yea, hereby the soul doth come all along in every instant to endure and be possessed in fears and dreadful aр- prehensions of all that woe that in eternity ..."

3. An Exposition of the Creed: With an Appendix, Containing the Principal Greek by John Pearson, William Stephen Dobson (1853)
"... prehensions of the condition of the dead, and the nature of the place into which the souls before our Saviour's death were gathered ; some looking on ..."

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