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单词 prevision
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previsionn.

Brit. /ˌpriːˈvɪʒn/, /prᵻˈvɪʒn/, U.S. /ˌpriˈvɪʒ(ə)n/, /prəˈvɪʒ(ə)n/
Forms: late Middle English preuisioun, late Middle English preuysion, late Middle English preuysioun, late Middle English prevecion, late Middle English prewysyn, 1500s preuisioune (Scottish), 1600s–1800s praevision, 1600s– prevision.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Probably also partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin praevision- , praevisio ; pre- prefix, vision n.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin praevision-, praevisio foresight (5th cent. in Augustine) < classical Latin praevīs- , past participial stem of praevidēre previde v.2 + -iō -ion suffix1. In later use probably partly independently re-formed < pre- prefix + vision n. (compare e.g. spelling with hyphen in quots. 2003 at sense 1, 1942 at sense 2, 2005 at sense 2). Compare Middle French prevision, French prévision action of foreseeing (late 13th cent. in Old French; subsequently from the late 17th cent.), thing foreseen (1314 in Old French), and also Old Occitan prevesion (c1300), Catalan previsió (13th cent.), Spanish previsión (a1332), Italian previsione (a1363).
1. The action or faculty of foreseeing; knowledge of or insight into the future; foresight.
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
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 44 I shal telle it for wonderfulnez of it & for preuisioun or aforesaying [?c1425 Paris for to be ware þerof; L. preuidentiam] if it falle eftesonez.
a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Newberry) (1974) 25 (MED) Prewysyn [a1500 Rawl. we beleve withowt seyng vnto the fruycione of His benigne mageste by thi provisioune].
1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to 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.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. xxiv. 25) Prevision is the best means of prevention.
1722 R. Blackmore Redemption ii. 59 He, who by prævision can descry Events, that sleeping in their causes lie.
1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. vi. v. 623 Such a Relation..could not possibly come about but by divine Prevision.
1836 G. S. Faber Primitive Doctr. Election ii. viii. 366 God's Prevision of man's future unbelief is..dissipated.
1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 152 I have seen All in prevision!
1896 C. G. D. Roberts Forge in Forest xxi. 279 I have never heard that one of them..had any prevision, or made special searching of his soul before sleep.
1935 T. S. Eliot Murder in Cathedral i. 22 Rebellious bishops..would have intercepted our letters... By God's grace aware of their prevision I sent my letters on another day.
1982 F. Pohl Starburst xii. 59 There is some indication that the subject was also interested in paranormal phenomena, such as clairvoyance or prevision.
2003 Econ. Times (India) (Nexis) 19 June Saying that 'pre-vision is pro-vision', he advised the administration and the security forces to anticipate things rather than allow these to over take us.
2. An instance of foresight; a prophetic or anticipatory vision or perception.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > [noun] > instance of
prenotion1588
prevision1635
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [noun] > an inspired prophecy
visionc1290
prophecyc1330
vaticiny1587
destiny1602
vaticination1603
prevision1635
weird1785
1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God iv. xxiv. 278 The spirit of the most Evangelicall Prophets..were usually elevated unto raptures or previsions of our Saviours sufferings, by their owne like sufferings.
1682 J. Flavell Pract. Treat. Fear (new ed.) vi. 80 We see the benefit of such previsions and provisions for sufferings.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists i. 48 Stella was quite right in her previsions. She saw from the very first hint what was going to happen.
1898 H. James Turn of Screw xxiii, in Two Magics 160 I seem to see our poor eyes already lighted with some spark of a prevision of the anguish that was to come.
1942 Lowell (Mass.) Sun & Citizen-Leader 18 Mar. 4/4 This, then is the pre-vision of the Axis dominated world of Europe and Asia—Japan seizing everything along the Pacific shore [etc.].
1979 A. C. Clarke Fountains of Paradise 66 In defiance of logic and gravity it appeared almost a prevision of his own dream.
2005 Toronto Star (Nexis) 24 Apr. d5 ‘In my early visions, numbers of men, higher than any of us could count, were cut down,’ she says early in the novel in a pre-vision of the trenches.

Derivatives

preˈvisionary adj. capable of or endowed with foresight; of the nature of a prevision.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > [adjective]
previsional1643
prescient1653
previsive1736
previsionary1818
precognitive1869
precog1954
1818 G. S. Faber Horæ Mosaicæ (ed. 2) II. iii. ii. 261 A special previsionary regard..to a very remarkable part of our Saviour's history.
1871 F. Jacox Script. Texts Illustr. by Gen. Lit. 255 Hazael went home, and on the very morrow commenced his justification of the seer's previsionary tears.
1955 Amer. Lit. 27 148 Prufrock's rueful, mocking, previsionary picture of himself trying to conceal his lack of virility.
1994 Daily Mail (Nexis) 22 Mar. 38 Previsionary dreams can also foretell entirely happy events.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

previsionv.

Brit. /ˌpriːˈvɪʒn/, /prᵻˈvɪʒn/, U.S. /ˌpriˈvɪʒ(ə)n/, /prəˈvɪʒ(ə)n/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: prevision n.
Etymology: < prevision n.
1. transitive. To have anticipatory knowledge or perception of; to foresee.In quot. 1868: to predestine.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > foresee [verb (intransitive)]
foreseec1000
before-seea1382
previse1597
prevision1868
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > foresee or foreknow [verb (transitive)]
fore-witc888
foreseec1000
foreshowc1000
seea1200
forelook1340
purvey1340
before-knowa1425
providea1450
previdec1475
provisec1475
foreknow1530
expect1595
previse1597
preview1607
precognize1612
prospect1652
fore-viewa1711
prevision1868
presee1890
1868 R. W. Buchanan North Coast 152 I long for God, I beg Him on my knee, But fear He hath to wrath previsioned me!
1873 D. F. MacCarthy Life is Dream i. vi. 30 Who discredits threatened ill, Specially an ill previsioned By one's study.
1894 Harper's Mag. July 229/2 The air blackened round me again, lighted up here and there with baleful flashes of the newspaper wit at my cost, which I previsioned in my misery.
a1907 F. Thompson in E. Meynell Life F. Thompson (1916) IV. 73 Already I previsioned that with me it would be to love, not to be loved.
1950 M. Mead Male & Female 291 But this same trend was previsioned in the couplet of the early twenties.
1998 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 10 Oct. e1 Together they had made the cubist revolution, in which Gertrude Stein saw the war previsioned.
2. transitive. To endow with foresight. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles xxxvi, in Graphic 17 Oct. 451/2 Like all who have been previsioned by suffering, she could..hear a penal sentence in the fiat, ‘You shall be born’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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