Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A presentiment; a foreboding.
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- verb Present participle of
forefeel .
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Examples
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I had some right to surmise that my illness may have been merely the effect of the hot wind; and this notion was encouraged by the elasticity of my spirits, and by a strong forefeeling that much of my destined life in this world was yet to come, and yet to be fulfilled.
Eothen 2003
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May there not in both fables lie a dim forefeeling of the time when Justice shall transfer her seat from the skies, so that whatever her ministers bind on earth may be bound in heaven?
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various
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For this they take for a very evil token, as though the soul being in despair and vexed in conscience, through some privy and secret forefeeling of the punishment now at hand, were afraid to depart.
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The weather was dull, and the sea, forefeeling the approach of the equinoctial gales, was restless and heaving.
An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886
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All but the loathed forefeeling of blank death, --
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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"The sense of flying in our sleep might, he thought, probably be the anticipation or forefeeling of an unevolved power, like an Aurelia's dream of butterfly motion."
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I had some right to surmise that my illness may have been merely the effect of the hot wind; and this notion was encouraged by the elasticity of my spirits, and by a strong forefeeling that much of my destined life in this world was yet to come, and yet to be fulfilled.
Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East Alexander William Kinglake 1850
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We had a forefeeling of the future, we were sure that we had had a vision of some new order of things, but were uncertain when it would be established. "
Historical Miniatures August Strindberg 1880
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