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English

Noun

prevision (countable and uncountable, plural previsions)

• Advance knowledge; foresight.
  • ✤ I watched her without knowing, with a prevision that she was going to address me, though with no sort of idea as to the subject of her address.¹
  • ✤ it was the beginning for her of a deeper prevision that, in spite of Miss Overmore’s brilliancy and Mrs. Wix’s passion, she should live to see a change in the nature of the struggle she appeared to have come into the world to produce.²
  • ✤ The whole discussion is concerned with City States, and there is no prevision of their obsolescence.³
• A prediction.

Verb

prevision (third-person singular simple present previsions, present participle previsioning, simple past and past participle previsioned)

• To predict or envision the future.

Etymology

From Middle English previsioun, from Old French prevision, from Late Latin praevisio, praevisionem, from Latin praevideo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /pɹɪˈvɪʒ(ə)n/

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Footnotes

1. 1889, Margaret Oliphant, The Portrait: ↩

2. 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew: ↩

3. 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21: ↩