presentiment
noun
a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something evil; foreboding.
presentimental
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a word derived from
presentiment.
Example Sentences
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In real life, how do we look back to little speeches as presentimental of, or contrasted with, an affecting event!
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have a presentimental assurance of finding one another again before long.
From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon
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.
From April Hopes by William Dean Howells
She thought, somehow, it was a mysterious and presentimental bell.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
