All 5 Uses of
presentiment
in
Jane Eyre
- However, my tenderest feelings are about to receive a shock: such is my presentiment; stay now, to see whether it will be realised.†
Chpt 14 *
- Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.†
Chpt 21
- I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my own.†
Chpt 21
- Away with evil presentiment!†
Chpt 25
- I passed it as negligently as I did the pollard willow opposite to it: I had no presentiment of what it would be to me; no inward warning that the arbitress of my life — my genius for good or evil — waited there in humble guise.†
Chpt 27
Definition:
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(presentiment) a premonition (a supernatural feeling about what is to come) -- especially of something evil or bad