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prævision

prævision is the obsolete form of prevision.

Meaning of prevision

Noun

prevision (countable and uncountable, plural previsions)

  1. Advance knowledge; foresight.
    • I watched her without knowing, with a prevision that she was going to address me, though with no sort of idea as to the subject of her address.1889, Margaret Oliphant, The Portrait
  2. A prediction.

See all 3 meanings of prevision

Forms of prævision

pluralprævisions

Questions about prævision

What is prævision the obsolete form of?
Prævision is the obsolete form of prevision.

Words near prævision in the dictionary

  1. prævent
  2. prævented
  3. præventing
  4. prævents
  5. prævious
  6. prævision
  7. prævisions
  8. Pré-Saint-Gervais
  9. pré-salé
  10. précieuse
  11. précieuses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prævision (page history and authors); prevision (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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