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单词 presension
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presensionn.

Forms: 1500s–1700s presention, 1600s–1800s presension.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin praesēnsiōn-, praesēnsiō.
Etymology: < classical Latin praesēnsiōn-, praesēnsiō foreknowledge, presentiment (Cicero) < praesēns- , past participial stem of praesentīre to feel beforehand (see presentient adj.1) + -iō -ion suffix1. Compare Middle French pressension (1555; < Latin).With the form presention compare -tion suffix.
Obsolete.
= presensation n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > [noun]
foreshowinga1050
foreknowingc1374
foreseeingc1374
fore-wit1377
before-knowingc1384
presciencec1384
fore-wittingc1386
presciencec1395
foresight14..
previdence?a1425
prevision?a1425
prenostication?a1450
precognitiona1500
before-witting1532
foreknowledge1535
fore-fetch1554
presciency1572
fore-wisdom1576
prenotion1588
presension1597
prospecta1616
presensation1653
prospiciency1681
prevoyance1767
onsight1838
preview1855
precog1954
1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas 125 They had many sorts of predictions, presentions, foreseeings.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 128 In sundry animalls, we deny not a kinde of naturall Astrologie, or innate presention both of wind and weather. View more context for this quotation
a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 130 A certain divination, which the Greeks call prophecy..that is a presension, and knowledge of future things.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo i, in Wks. (1721) III. 11 They [sc. ants] have Presensions of the Change in Air, And never work Abroad but when 'tis fair.
1800 Mysterious Penitent I. iv. 76 His uncle's mysterious words, his father's cold and haughty letter, were causes of present unhappiness; but a presension of some more dreadful misery lagged at his heart.
1836 Duke of Somerset in Lady G. Ramsden Corr. Two Brothers (1906) 328 Major Howard..appeared to have a very decided presension of his untimely death.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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