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
Many times has the Presidential boom of Hiram W. Johnson been wrecked in the prevision of political correspondents.
From Time Magazine Archive
The people she picked to run her magazine obviously lacked prevision.
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
They had the water as fast as prevision and Law could make it.
From Mushroom Town by Onions, Oliver
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
But these previsions did not injure good-humor in any one.
From On the Field of Glory An Historical Novel of the Time of King John Sobieski by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
But hitherto nothing has happened to justify the previsions of either lady on this score.
From That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3 by Trollope, Frances Eleanor
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