forefeeling
noun1
Archaic A presentiment.
- 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 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.
- 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 […]'1798, The Critical Review, volume 24, London: A. Hamilton, page 397:
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- 1843, James Russell Lowell, "Prometheus" in The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Ten Volumes, Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1890, Vol. VII, p. 114, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZYcRAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false […] 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,
- Derived terms
- forefeelingly