forefeel
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of forefeel
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He can be pleased with a literary career, which brought him in youth the heady "forefeel of fame" and later allowed him to strut as "a fat, famous writer in his powerful forties."
From Time Magazine Archive
Many of our most serious mistakes in life arise from our inability to imagine the consequences of our actions and to forefeel how these consequences will affect us.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Dods, Marcus
"The sense of flying in our sleep might, he thought, probably be the anticipation or forefeeling of an unevolved power, like an Aurelia's dream of butterfly motion."
From Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
The weather was dull, and the sea, forefeeling the approach of the equinoctial gales, was restless and heaving.
From An Iceland Fisherman by Cambon, M. Jules
May there not in both fables lie a dim forefeeling of the time when Justice shall transfer her seat from the skies, so that whatever her ministers bind on earth may be bound in heaven?
From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various
When down the lane, she watch'd them as they went Till out of sight, was no forefeeling sent Of coming ill?
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various
Every genius in art has demonstrated in his works the forefeeling of new laws, and every succeeding one has done by his precursors as his successors have in their turn done by him.
From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef
What our great prophet of art thus elaborated so eloquently, the early men forefelt by instinct, dimly it may be, but not less truly.
From The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry by Newton, Joseph Fort
He forefelt and foresaw the ordeal of a perfect Christianity, hated by sinners.
From Christian Science by Twain, Mark
Perhaps the Genius that lies under the consciousness forefelt a catastrophe, and urged him to give his gift ere giving should be impossible.
From The Marquis of Lossie by MacDonald, George
Some one who saw him then fancied that he seemed that day like one who forefelt the end.
From Public Speaking by Winter, Irvah Lester
Her father not unfrequently accompanied her to the Old House, but Juliet and she had arranged such signals, and settled such understandings, that the simple man saw nothing, heard nothing, forefelt nothing.
From Paul Faber, Surgeon by MacDonald, George
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