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presentiment

pri-zen-tuh-muhnt

noun

a premonition; a foreboding that something, usually bad, is going to occur

1971Hermann HesseSiddharthaAlthough surprised, Govinda was compelled by a great love and presentiment to obey him…1997Bernard CornwellSharpe's TigerThe Tippoo had made his oath, and the oath meant that he would either sit on the tiger throne or else he would die, and the Tippoo's dreams had given him no presentiment of death.

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