prevision

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Pronunciation

/pɹɪˈvɪʒ(ə)n/ (UK)

Definition of prevision

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, uncountable)Advance knowledge; foresight.

“I watched her without knowing, with a prevision that she was going to address me, though with no sort of idea as to the subject of her address.”
“it was the beginning for her of a deeper prevision that, in spite of Miss Overmore's brilliancy and Mrs. Wix's passion, she should live to see a change in the nature of the struggle she appeared to have come into the world to produce.”
“The whole discussion is concerned with City States, and there is no prevision of their obsolescence.”

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noun

(countable, uncountable)Advance knowledge; foresight.

“I watched her without knowing, with a prevision that she was going to address me, though with no sort of idea as to the subject of her address.”
“it was the beginning for her of a deeper prevision that, in spite of Miss Overmore's brilliancy and Mrs. Wix's passion, she should live to see a change in the nature of the struggle she appeared to have come into the world to produce.”
“The whole discussion is concerned with City States, and there is no prevision of their obsolescence.”
(countable, uncountable)A prediction.

verb

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From Middle English previsioun, from Old French prevision, from Late Latin praevisio, praevisionem, from Latin praevideo.

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