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Definition
a premonition (a supernatural feeling about what is to come) — especially of something evil or bad
- Outward portents and inward presentiments were his.Chapters 25-27 -- Postscript; Knights and Squires; Knights and Squires (20% in)
- 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.Chapters 7-9 -- The Chapel; The Pulpit; The Sermon (64% in)
- He seemed to be working in obedience to some particular presentiment.Chapters 82-84 -- The Honour and Glory of Whaling; Jonah Historically Regarded; Pitchpoling (76% in)
There are no more uses of "presentiment" in Moby Dick.
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