Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A presentiment of the future; a foreboding.
- noun A warning in advance; a forewarning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of premonishing or forewarning; hence, a previous warning or notification of subsequent events; previous information.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future. - noun A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an early warning about a future event
- noun a feeling of evil to come
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Many have been dynamic to thoughts Gods will as good as to follow a heading of a Holy Spirit, nonetheless they miss a positive forwardpropelling heart since they have been not certain if a superintendence of their premonition is unconditionally dependable.
THE DANGERS OF SPIRITUAL LIFE-By Watchman Nee A Fair Mitre admin 2009
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Many have been dynamic to thoughts Gods will as good as to follow a heading of a Holy Spirit, nonetheless they miss a positive forwardpropelling heart since they have been not certain if a superintendence of their premonition is unconditionally dependable.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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I also liked the way premonition is explained in this regard.
REVIEW: The Man Who Turned Into Himself by David Ambrose 2009
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Central America, like those we are living through today, perhaps it was in premonition of the present crossroads, that Rubén
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We are fascinated by the idea of premonition, oracles and anything that would allow a sneak peak at the unknown.
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A premonition is an early warning of future events and is dominated by physical sensations: an inexplicable feeling of unease or excitement that something bad or good is about to happen.
Decoding Your Destiny Ph.D. Carmen Harra 2006
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A premonition is an early warning of future events and is dominated by physical sensations: an inexplicable feeling of unease or excitement that something bad or good is about to happen.
Decoding Your Destiny Ph.D. Carmen Harra 2006
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I had that thing called a premonition that something was dreadfully wrong.
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His was not an imaginative nature, but a premonition is a premonition, and he had just joined the Big Five, so that his responsibilities, should anything difficult turn up, would be by no means decreased.
Police at the Funeral Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931
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His was not an imaginative nature, but a premonition is a premonition, and he had just joined the Big Five, so that his responsibilities, should anything difficult turn up, would be by no means decreased.
Police at the Funeral Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1931
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