Both Uses of
presentiment
in
Oliver Twist
- I felt a strange presentiment from the very first, that that audacious young savage would come to be hung!'†
Chpt 7 *
- As the other two were impressed with a similar presentiment; and as their blood, like his, had all gone down again; some speculation ensued upon the cause of this sudden change in their temperament.†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(presentiment) a premonition (a supernatural feeling about what is to come) -- especially of something evil or bad