prevision
Americannoun
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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
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
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
"Regarding upkeep and maintenance, there is definitely a considerable lack of prevision."
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 Bindloss, Harold
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
If, contrary to our previsions, any disturbance should occur, have the goodness to let me know.
From No Surrender by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
The following year, that is 1654, the English public received, according to Dorothy's previsions, the first instalment of the most noticeable heroical romance composed in their language.
From The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare by Jusserand, J. J.
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