Both Uses of
presentiment
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- I trembled from head to foot; I felt a presentiment of who it was and wished to rouse one of the peasants who dwelt in a cottage not far from mine; but I was overcome by the sensation of helplessness, so often felt in frightful dreams, when you in vain endeavour to fly from an impending danger, and was rooted to the spot.†
p. 172.0
- But on the day that was to fulfil my wishes and my destiny, she was melancholy, and a presentiment of evil pervaded her; and perhaps also she thought of the dreadful secret which I had promised to reveal to her on the following day.†
p. 196.5 *
Definition:
a premonition (a supernatural feeling about what is to come) -- especially of something evil or bad