preapprehensionn.
/ˌpriːaprᵻˈhɛnʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌpriæprəˈhɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n/, /ˈˌpriæpriˈhɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n/ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > fear > apprehension > [noun] > apprehension
doubta1225
feara1300
werea1300
suspiciona1340
doubtancea1400
suspectc1400
dwerec1440
suspensec1440
doubting1486
frayed1536
doubtfulness1576
pain1582
preapprehension1628
apprehension1656
alarm1733
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xiii. 35 Or, is it the guilt of our mis-guided soules, already condemning vs, by the pre-apprehension of a future punishment?
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (iii. 18) 1624 The..pre-apprehension of sickenesse and death, is an antedating of sickenesse and death.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iii. i. App. 63/2 Under these Pre apprehensions, it was his own endeavour to beware of abating his own first Love.
1740 E. Smith Forty Two Serm. I. xi. 203 If Evil must come, why do we anticipate, why hasten, why double it by untimely Preapprehension?
1784 J. Brown Compend. Hist. Brit. Churches II. 261 To see the pre-apprehensions of the protestors so fearfully verified.
2. The action or fact of forming a conception or idea beforehand; an instance of this; a preconceived notion.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > idea, notion, or concept > [noun] > preconceived
fore-conceita1586
prenotion1603
preceptiona1620
preapprehension1631
1631 E. Reynolds Three Treat. 341 For that ever supposeth some knowledge and preapprehension of the Goodnesse of that which is Hoped for.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. vi. 93 Such as regarding the clouds, behold them in shapes conformable to preapprehensions . View more context for this quotation
1677 M. Hale Contempl. ii. 90 The pre-apprehensions and Image that the mind makes to it self of them.
1775 J. Gill Cause of God & Truth (ed. 4) 417 Cicero is arguing against the definition his brother..had given of divination,..a foresight or preapprehension of fortuitous events.
1877 Appletons' Jrnl. Feb. 186/2 What we really lack is forethought—such a pre-apprehension of a danger as will lead to an adequate preparation for it.
1900 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Sentinel 1 June 4/1 Some rare minds of extraordinarily tenuous structure possess the spiritual quality of unerring preapprehension.
2000 D. S. Long Divine Economy viii. 127 God as the abyss was his [sc. Rahner's] attempt to find in creation the possibility for, and the preapprehension of, God.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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