Both Uses of
premonition
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He did not know where to seek it or how, but a premonition which led him on told him that this image would, without any overt act of his, encounter him.†
Chpt 2 *
- A tender premonition touched him of the tryst he had then looked forward to and, in spite of the horrible reality which lay between his hope of then and now, of the holy encounter he had then imagined at which weakness and timidity and inexperience were to fall from him.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(premonition) a feeling, not based on reason, that something will happen -- especially something bad