forefeeling
Verb
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Verb
- present participle of forefeel#English|forefeel
forefeeling (plural forefeelings)
- presentiment
- 1551, Thomas More, Utopia, translated by Raphe Robynson, Cambridge University Press, 1922, reprinted from Hearne's edition 1716, pp. 148-9,
- For this they take for a verye evel token, as thoughe the soule beynge in dispaire and vexed in conscience, through some privie and secret forefeiling of the punishement now at hande were aferde to depart.
- 1798, The Critical Review, London, A. Hamilton, Vol. 24, p. 397,
- The account of the earthquake in Calabria, in 1783, contains curious particulars of that calamitous event. […] 'Much more remarkable undoubtedly were the presentiments which were seen in living creatures. Man alone remained free from these forefeelings; neither on his body nor on the chearfulness of his mind had it the smallest influence […] '
- 1843, James Russell Lowell, "Prometheus" in The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Ten Volumes, Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1890, Vol. VII, p. 114,
- […] now, now set free / This essence, not to die, but to become / Part of that awful Presence which doth haunt / The palaces of tyrants, to scare off, / With its grim eyes and fearful whisperings / And hideous sense of utter loneliness, / All hope of safety, all desire of peace, / All but the loathed forefeeling of blank death, —
- 1551, Thomas More, Utopia, translated by Raphe Robynson, Cambridge University Press, 1922, reprinted from Hearne's edition 1716, pp. 148-9,
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