Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Premonitory.
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Examples
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Such models self-activate during sleep (this is a premonitive-type dream) and find that they don't meet the requirements anymore.
The Brain, A Decoded Enigma Dorin T. Moisa
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The least human whisper in these subterraneans, dug out first four thousand years ago, revived ominous Powers that stalked beside him, forbidding and premonitive.
Four Weird Tales Algernon Blackwood 1910
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Should it be trying opportunistically to jump on to a post 9/11 or 7/7 bandwagon - in a strangely premonitive way, given these events are still 25 years in the future - or should it have the same comic tone as its predecessor?
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She put down her brush and said theatrically, "I feel the fatal premonitive impulses ....
Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Will Levington Comfort 1905
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