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Meanings of presentiment in English
Catalan
pressentiment Spanish
premonición Synonyms
Examples for "foreboding"
Examples for "foreboding"
1
I simply trudged behind him as my sense of grim foreboding grew.
2
Tiaan kept on, following his directions with an increasing sense of foreboding.
3
This year the sense of foreboding was made worse by the weather.
4
It was invariably cold, damp, gloomy and foreboding, particularly for the opposition.
5
He was living very much in the present-anugly and foreboding present.
1
My premonition was right, though it took three years to come true.
2
The strength of the premonition grew, despite Nicole's attempts to combat it.
3
She had a kind of premonition that there was pain in it.
4
As Tibor saw this incredible sight, he felt a sudden ghastly, premonition.
5
The female bear had not the slightest fear or premonition of danger.
1
In him you had no dark reserves, no boding silence to fear.
2
The slight breeze had died away, and a boding stillness reigned around.
3
Night came, and with it came a boding silence, fraught with terror.
4
It was followed by a brooding silence of a boding, ominous import.
5
Whispers passed along, and a boding uneasiness took possession of every countenance.
Usage of presentiment in English
1
He had in it a presentiment of much of his future course.
2
Her terror and presentiment of death were merely symptoms of the disease.
3
The baron had a presentiment of the opportunity afforded by this windfall.
4
The whole of the Nile valley was a prey to gloomy presentiment.
5
She had never been deceived in a presentiment that was so positive.
6
I went down at once to Sicily, and the presentiment grew stronger.
7
At its highest, it is prophecy; at its lowest, a vague presentiment.
8
And an ink stain marred his heart with the presentiment of trouble.
9
No argument could remove the presentiment, but facing the matter gave courage.
10
Without understanding what she wanted, he had the presentiment of something terrible.
11
No presentiment of evil touched her, no cloud was in her sky.
12
The name of his visitor had alarmed him with a sudden presentiment.
13
At another time there is mixed presentiment and humor in his report.
14
He had a strong presentiment that he would not see Maurice again.
15
Was there any ground for the relief in the presentiment of death?
16
Along with it came the presentiment, that we should never meet again.
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Presentiment through the time
Presentiment across language varieties
United Kingdom
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