prevision
Americannoun
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the act or power of foreseeing; prescience
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a prophetic vision or prophecy
Other Word Forms
- previsional adjective
Etymology
Origin of prevision
Example Sentences
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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
The people she picked to run her magazine obviously lacked prevision.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus this vasty Audubon, who could prevision the cities that were to mar and befoul his beautiful Ohio River; the laying waste of the forests; the slaughter of the deer and wild pigeons.
From Time Magazine Archive
"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
Knowledge of the active speculations that went on centuries before his time on the Ionian seaboard; prevision of what secrets men would wrest from the stars centuries hence—of neither did he dream.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward
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