presentient

American  

[pree-sen-shuhnt] / priˈsɛn ʃənt /

adjective

1. having a presentiment.

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presentient British  

/ prɪˈsɛnʃənt, priː-, -ˈzɛn- /

adjective

1. characterized by or experiencing a presentiment

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Etymology

Origin of presentient

1805–15; < Latin praesentient- (stem of praesentiēns ), present participle of praesentīre. See pre-, sentient

Example Sentences

Presentient, prē-sen′shi-ent, adj. perceiving beforehand.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

Well may your heart swell in presentient sadness, indulgent reader, when your footsteps wander through places where the splendid monuments of Old German Art speak, like eloquent tongues, of the magnificence, good steady industry, and sterling honesty of an illustrious age now long since passed away.

From Project Gutenberg

For the sake of his symphony, he forced himself into a quiet frame of mind at night, made room for faint-hearted hopes, and lulled his presentient soul into peace.

From Project Gutenberg

But now let us conjecture that the so presentient Auscultator has handed-in his Relatio ex Actis; been invited to a glass of Rhine-wine; and so, instead of returning dispirited and athirst to his dusty Town-home, 106is ushered into the Gardenhouse, where sit the choicest party of dames and cavaliers: if not engaged in Æsthetic Tea, yet in trustful evening conversation, and perhaps Musical Coffee, for we hear of ‘harps and pure voices making the stillness live.’

From Project Gutenberg

However, this corruption of the fomes does not hinder man from using his rational will to check individual inordinate movements, if he be presentient of them, for instance by turning his thoughts to other things.

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