Both Uses of
presentiment
in
Mansfield Park
- Sir Thomas's sending away his son seemed to her so like a parent's care, under the influence of a foreboding of evil to himself, that she could not help feeling dreadful presentiments; and as the long evenings of autumn came on, was so terribly haunted by these ideas, in the sad solitariness of her cottage, as to be obliged to take daily refuge in the dining-room of the Park.†
Chpt 4
- She had felt an early presentiment that she should like the eldest best.†
Chpt 5 *
Definition:
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(presentiment) a premonition (a supernatural feeling about what is to come) -- especially of something evil or bad