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prevision

/pri-vizh-uhn/US // prɪˈvɪʒ ən //UK // (prɪˈvɪʒən) //

预见,预测,前瞻性,前瞻

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : foresight, foreknowledge, or prescience.
    • : a prophetic or anticipatory vision or perception.

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Examples

  • With a prevision that something was wrong, he said a word of adieu to Mrs. Ashton, went down, and met the man outside.

  • So the curious prevision of the future which had come over them all at 'Uncle Marmy's gates' was actually fulfilled.

  • Prevision proposes to effect some one thing instead of another, and seems to fear that that which it desires might not occur.

  • If the divinity acted thus, then indeed would He have had recourse to prevision, and consequently, to reasoning.

  • We should have expected a green dress to agree with the prevision; but it was Sabbato Santo.