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prevision, n.|prɪˈvɪʒən|
Also 7–9 præ-.
[= F. prévision (14th c. in Littré), ad. L. type *prævīsiōn-em, n. of action f. prævidēre previde.]
The action or faculty of foreseeing; knowledge of or insight into the future; foresight, foreknowledge.
1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus iii. 7 The Apostle by mentioning of grace againe, secludeth all that prevision of workes formerly mentioned, which might be motiues vnto God for the bestowing of his Grace. 1647Trapp Comm. Matt. xxiv. 25 Prevision is the best means of prevention. 1741Warburton Div. Legat. vi. v. II. 623 Such a Relation..could not possibly come about but by divine Prevision. 1833Mrs. Browning Prometh. Bound 313, I have known All in prevision!
b. With a and pl. An instance of this; a prophetic or anticipatory vision or perception.
c1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. vi. iii. (1821) 200 ‘The mind of the universe’, which mingling its influence with our minds, begets these προγνώσεις or previsions. 1682J. Flavel Fear 80 We see the benefit of such previsions and provisions for sufferings. 1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. i. (1858) 51 Stella was quite right in her previsions. She saw from the very first hint what was going to happen. 1866Mrs. Gaskell Wives & Dau. l, She had a prevision of what was coming.
Hence preˈvision v. trans., (a) to endow with prevision; (b) to have prevision of, to foresee; preˈvisional a., relating to, depending on, characterized by, or exhibiting prevision (whence preˈvisionally adv.); preˈvisionary a. = previsional.
1891T. Hardy Tess xxxvi, Like all who have been *previsioned by suffering, she could..hear a penal sentence in the fiat, ‘You shall be born’, particularly if addressed to potential issue of hers. 1901Westm. Gaz. 23 Mar. 2/1 He must have previsioned clearly..that whatever..may be about to befall Empires..cooks, at any rate, will always be in request. 1836G. S. Faber Prim. Doctr. Election ii. viii. (1842) 376.
Ibid. ii. ix. (1842) 387 Election, whether absolute and unconditional, or *previsional and conditional, is equally, both on the Calvinistic Scheme and on the Arminian Scheme, An Election of certain individuals, directly and immediately, to eternal life. 1887Spectator 15 Oct. 1394 In a spirit of previsional self-defence.
1836G. S. Faber Prim. Doctr. Election ii. ix. (1842) 405 Certain individuals..predestinated either absolutely or *previsionally to eternal life.
1818― Horæ Mosaicæ II. 261 A special *previsionary regard..to a very remarkable part of our Saviour's history. 1851― Many Mansions 373 As respects the previsionary mercy of God. |