presentimental love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to or in the nature of a presentiment: as, a presentimental anxiety.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Of nature of a presentiment; foreboding.

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  • adjective Of the nature of a presentiment; foreboding.

Etymologies

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presentiment +‎ -al

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Examples

  • She thought, somehow, it was a mysterious and presentimental bell.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • She thought, somehow, it was a mysterious and presentimental bell.

    XIII. Sentimental and Otherwise 1917

  • I have a presentimental assurance of finding one another again before long.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

  • They commonly intimated themselves parenthetically in the midst of some blissful talk they were having, and overcast his clear sky with retrospective ideals of conduct or presentimental plans for contingencies that might never occur.

    April Hopes William Dean Howells 1878

  • She thought, somehow, it was a mysterious and presentimental bell.

    Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • I have a presentimental assurance of finding one another again before long.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1833

  • O! the affecting beauty of the death of Cawdor, and the presentimental speech of the king:

    Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • In real life, how do we look back to little speeches as presentimental of, or contrasted with, an affecting event!

    Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • In real life, how do we look back to little speeches as presentimental of, or contrasted with, an affecting event!

    Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • O! the affecting beauty of the death of Cawdor, and the presentimental speech of the king: — “There’s no art

    Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

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