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prevision - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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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: ↩

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