All 3 Uses of
presentiment
in
Moby Dick
- Then, in that contracted hole, sunk, too, beneath the ship's water-line, Jonah feels the heralding presentiment of that stifling hour, when the whale shall hold him in the smallest of his bowels' wards.†
Chpt 7-9
- Outward portents and inward presentiments were his.†
Chpt 25-27 *presentiments = premonitions (supernatural feelings about what is to come)
- He seemed to be working in obedience to some particular presentiment.†
Chpt 82-84
Definition:
a premonition (a supernatural feeling about what is to come) -- especially of something evil or bad