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præmonition

præmonition is the archaic form of premonition.

Meaning of premonition

Noun

premonition (plural premonitions)

  1. A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
    Synonyms:
    vision
  2. A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
    • The sinister face of Dr. Bauerstein recurred to me unpleasantly. A vague suspicion of everyone and everything filled my mind. Just for a moment I had a premonition of approaching evil.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 17

Forms of præmonition

pluralpræmonitions

Questions about præmonition

What is præmonition the archaic form of?
Præmonition is the archaic form of premonition.

Words near præmonition in the dictionary

  1. præmises
  2. præmising
  3. præmiss
  4. præmisses
  5. præmium
  6. præmonition
  7. præmonitions
  8. præmunire
  9. præmunires
  10. præmunitory
  11. prænomen

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