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prescience

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pre·science  (prshns, --ns, prshns, -sh-ns)
n.
Knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight.
prescience [press-ee-enss]
Noun
Formal knowledge of events before they happen [Latin praescire to know beforehand]
prescient adj
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Noun1.prescience - the power to foresee the future
prevision
mental ability, capacity - the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior
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Smith, when I next came into the country, would be that Barton cottage was taken: and I felt an immediate satisfaction and interest in the event, which nothing but a kind of prescience of what happiness I should experience from it, can account for.
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Did she realize in a flash of prescience that there was no earthly future for our sweet Cecily?
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Had he any prescience of the day, five years to come, when Josiah Bounderby of Coketown was to die of a fit in the Coketown street, and this same precious will was to begin its long career of quibble, plunder, false pretences, vile example, little service and much law?
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