prevision
Americannoun
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previsions
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foresight, foreknowledge, or prescience.
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a prophetic or anticipatory vision or perception.
noun
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the act or power of foreseeing; prescience
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a prophetic vision or prophecy
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McGroarty said the WFP managed to distribute food in key locations across the northeast and central highlands of the country in prevision of the winter months.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2022
"No man will have to fear the wreck of his home life and the destruction of his power to fulfil his family responsibilities through changes of employment quite beyond his own prevision or control."
From Time Magazine Archive
That prevision proved essential when last month Mrs. Taylor did prematurely bear her brood.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has the "prevision of a frontiersman" and his "prudent judgments" are the obverse, in State Department coin, of the President's driving self -confidence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Men acquire an almost instinctive prevision of danger in the eternal shadow of the African bush.
From The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss
Loan-loss previsions, however, also jumped 66% from the year-ago period to 4.04 billion pesos, with cost of risk shooting up to 1.66% from 1.13%.
From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 2023
Feinstein acknowledged it included previsions that unanimously passed the Senate in May.
From US News ● Dec. 9, 2014
I don’t have any idea why such previsions came to me.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
The event justified his sombre previsions, but did not cure the recklessness of the so-called patriots.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
Mistress Kate Parr came to be a queen, according to her previsions of greatness: and wherefore should not Editha Louvaine?
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt
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