Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision.
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- noun apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
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Examples
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After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, -- a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
sunday culture. ithiliana 2010
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And here again the mirror darkens; we seem to witness ourselves in a second-sight procession.
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And here again the mirror darkens; we seem to witness ourselves in a second-sight procession.
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Stone is a whiz at getting to the bottom of his defending-lawyer's cases but only because the brain aneurysm he suffers -- and to which he could succumb at any moment -- affords him discombobulating second-sight.
David Finkle: What's Television Telling Us About American Men in Deep-uh-? 2009
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After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, –a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
W. E. B. Du Bois, Carol Swain, and African-American Duality 2009
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After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, — a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
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After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, — a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
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With the gift of second-sight which accompanies genius, he began to suspect that the chilly note was but a warning of the catastrophe to come.
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By the help of his judicial second-sight he could pierce the double casing of lies in which advocates hide the heart of a trial.
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By the help of his judicial second-sight he could pierce the double casing of lies in which advocates hide the heart of a trial.
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