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presentiment

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Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.

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Presentiment is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass. Emily Dickinson

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. August Strindberg

A man my good Sir, has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman, but she has a presentiment of it some moments before. Laurence Sterne

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is with equal regret, my dear sirs, that I part with you. Because I feel a presentiment that we part to meet no more. Johann de Kalb

a steadily escalating sense of foreboding Source: Internet

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