† premonstrancen.
Obsolete. rare.
A showing beforehand; a foreshadowing, a portent.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prefiguration > [noun] > instance of
shadow1382
prophecya1393
foreshow1548
foreshower1555
prefiguration1579
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foresignification1592
premonstrance1594
prodromus1602
premonstration1610
antetype1612
prodromy1647
pre-significator1669
foretellera1716
presignification1835
foretype1848
prefigurementa1859
foreshadower18..
foreboder1876
forego1880
1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night F ij b Dreames..if they haue anie premonstrances in them, the preparatiue feare of that they so premonstrate..is far worse than the mischiefe itselfe by them denounced and premonstrated.
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 14) 269 Our Apostle had some speciall premonstrance of the nearenesse of his end.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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