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clairvoyance Noun the alleged power of perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses [French: clear-seeing] clairvoyance the ability to see, in a trance, into the world beyond the percep-tion of the normal senses, especially with the ability to predict future events. — clairvoyant, n., adj. See also: Spirits and Spiritualism
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Murthwaite, I thought it right to add that I had heard of the little boy, and the drop of ink, and the rest of it, and that any explanation based on the theory of clairvoyance was an explanation which would carry no conviction whatever with it, to MY mind. In a word, that accumulated knowledge which man inherits by means of books, imparted and transmitted information, schools, colleges, and universities, we obtain through more subtle agencies that are incorporated with our organic construction, and which form a species of hereditary mesmerism; a vegetable clairvoyance that enables us to see with the eyes, hear with the ears, and digest with the understandings of our predecessors. She felt it, and visioned it as by an unthinkable clairvoyance, and gasped, for the flurry of war was over. |
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clairvoyance - apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
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