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forefeelings

forefeelings is the plural of forefeeling.

Meaning of forefeeling

Noun

forefeeling (plural forefeelings)

  1. (archaic) A presentiment.
    • 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.1551, Thomas More, Utopia, translated by Raphe Robynson, Cambridge University Press, 1922, reprinted from Hearne's edition 1716, pp. 148-9, https://archive.org/details/utopia__00moreuoft

Questions about forefeelings

What is forefeelings the plural of?
Forefeelings is the plural of forefeeling.

Words near forefeelings in the dictionary

  1. forefeast
  2. forefeasts
  3. forefeel
  4. forefeeling
  5. forefeelingly
  6. forefeelings
  7. forefeels
  8. forefeet
  9. forefelt
  10. forefemora
  11. forefemur

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