second-sighted love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Possessing the faculty of second sight; gifted with second sight. See second sight, under sight.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Having the power of second-sight.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective foreseeing the future

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Examples

  • He recommended him as a person skilful in the arts of the harper and the senachie, and by no means contemptible in the quality of a second-sighted person or seer.

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

  • The MacGregors, somewhat discouraged by the appearance of a force much superior to their own, were cheered on to the attack by a Seer, or second-sighted person, who professed that he saw the shrouds of the dead wrapt around their principal opponents.

    Rob Roy 2005

  • I'm a Crome generator, one of those aberrant creatures the mortals call psychic, or second-sighted.

    The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004

  • β€˜Is not his son Malcolm taishatr (a second-sighted person)?’ asked Evan.

    Waverley 2004

  • My uncle was horrified, and moved to a little house about a quarter of a mile into the country, where he lived with an old second-sighted servant,11 and a man-servant to look after the racehorse that was browsing in the neighbouring field, with a donkey to keep it company.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • My uncle was horrified, and moved to a little house about a quarter of a mile into the country, where he lived with an old second-sighted servant,11 and a man-servant to look after the racehorse that was browsing in the neighbouring field, with a donkey to keep it company.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • My uncle was horrified, and moved to a little house about a quarter of a mile into the country, where he lived with an old second-sighted servant,11 and a man-servant to look after the racehorse that was browsing in the neighbouring field, with a donkey to keep it company.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • My uncle was horrified, and moved to a little house about a quarter of a mile into the country, where he lived with an old second-sighted servant,11 and a man-servant to look after the racehorse that was browsing in the neighbouring field, with a donkey to keep it company.

    Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

  • In spite of two Scots grandparents I'm in no way psychic or fey or second-sighted, as far as extra-sensory perception goes I've about the same degree of receptive sensitivity as a lump of old lead.

    When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

  • My uncle was horrified, and moved to a little house about a quarter of a mile into the country, where he lived with an old second-sighted servant,11 and a man-servant to look after the racehorse that was browsing in the neighbouring field, with a donkey to keep it company.

    Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

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