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Definition of Presentiments
1. presentiment [n] - See also: presentiment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presentiments
Literary usage of Presentiments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1882)
"TRUTHFUL presentiments. " IT is but foolery," is the response made by ... I never
laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my ..."
2. Faith-healing: Christian Science and Kindred Phenomena by James Monroe Buckley (1892)
"These are all akin to the state of mind in which presentiments arise.1 ANALYSIS
OF TYPICAL presentiments presentiments concerning hours of death have ..."
3. Essay on Superstition: Being an Inquiry Into the Effects of Physical by William Newnham (1830)
"WE must now say a few words on the subject of what are called presentiments.
I apprehend that, in every instance, presentiments may be referred to some ..."
4. The Old Schoolhouse and Other Poems and Conceits in Verse by Thomas Stewart Denison (1902)
"presentiments. In "Scrap-Book Recitations," 1880. ... It is said that President
Lincoln had such presentiments for many years. There's naught but ceaseless ..."
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