prescience

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With that prescience which is a sixth sense to women, Winsome had slipped on the old sprigged gown which had done duty at the blanket-washing so long ago, and her hair, unbound in the sun, shone golden as it flowed from beneath the lilac sunbonnet.

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  1. noun Knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight.

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  • And because the Lady was blessed with a certain amount of prescience, which is another way of saying she could see a bit into the future, Infanta knew exactly what they would find. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 05 - May 1994
  • He may have wanted that prescience which is, after integrity, the highest gift of a statesman, but which is almost impossible to a man so pressed by the constant and engrossing occupations of an English minister that he cannot find time for the patient study and thought from which alone sound forecasts can issue. —  William Ewart Gladstone
  • And prescience: his critiques of imperialism and capitalism resonate in the light of the Iraq war and global economic crisis. —  Mail & Guardian Online
  • John Cooke, it seemed to depend on "happenstance, luck (some of it bad), prescience, implementation of the fairness doctrine, and some taking of chances on unknown quantities"
  • Whether through happenstance or through foresight bordering on prescience, NASCAR's development of the Car of Tomorrow was a brilliant move, says four-time Sprint Cup champion Jeff Gordon. www. thatsracin.com —  The MotorSportsNews.Net(work)
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  1. from Middle English prescience, from Old French prescience, French prescience = Spanish Portuguese presciencia = Italian prescienza, from Late Latin præscientia, foreknowledge, from Latin præscien(t-)s, present participle of præscire, know beforehand: see prescient.
 

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