prevoyance

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But she still hopes it will be in this month, that she may lose no reputation in point of prevoyance, which would be a pity.

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  • But she still hopes it will be in this month, that she may lose no reputation in point of prevoyance, which would be a pity. —  George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
  • “I have got conveyed,” he says in a distressing letter from Newark to Hall Stevenson — “I have got conveyed thus far like a bale of cadaverous goods consigned to Pluto and Company, lying in the bottom of my chaise most of the route, upon a large pillow which I had the prevoyance to purchase before I set out. —  Sterne
 

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