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Prevision

noun
1.
A prophetic vision (as in a dream).
2.
The power to foresee the future.  Synonym: prescience.
3.
Seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing.  Synonyms: farsightedness, foresight, prospicience.
4.
The act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future).  Synonyms: anticipation, prediction.





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"Prevision" Quotes from Famous Books



... puppies. Professor Ziegler finds the explanation of this last performance in the prenatal movements of the foetus within the maternal body. This seems to me doubtful; besides, it must be remembered that this prevision of Lola's was a double one, as it concerned both the number and the sex of the puppies (autoscopia?). The fact that the sex of the puppies was foretold almost correctly does not eliminate all doubt. And the authoress gives sufficient details on the experiment ...
— Lola - The Thought and Speech of Animals • Henny Kindermann
... horribly embarrassed. He was visited with a fearful constraint, a chivalrous wish not to hurt her feelings, and a sharp prevision of ...
— The Fortieth Door • Mary Hastings Bradley
... occurred in endless succession, from Spottsylvania Court House to Petersburg are considered, it will be impossible to find sufficient excuse for them. They were in nearly every case the direct result of defective staff arrangements and the lack of proper prevision. In a few instances they were due to positive incompetency on the part of subordinate commanders, while on several notable occasions there was a woeful lack of responsible oversight and supervision on ...
— Heroes of the Great Conflict; Life and Services of William Farrar - Smith, Major General, United States Volunteer in the Civil War • James Harrison Wilson
... 30th the word was passed behind a closed door in the hotel that seven-thirty the next morning was the hour and the spectators should be called at five—which seemed the final word in staff prevision. ...
— My Second Year of the War • Frederick Palmer
... while to cite here a still more pointed example of the want of prevision, so common and so intelligible at that time. Writing in July 1791, he confutes those who asserted that an established and limited monarchy was a safeguard against a usurper, whose power is only limited by ...
— Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) - Essay 3: Condorcet • John Morley


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