All 14 Uses of
presentiment
in
The Idiot
- She must have some presentiment of evil.†
Chpt 2.3 *
- He remembered that during his epileptic fits, or rather immediately preceding them, he had always experienced a moment or two when his whole heart, and mind, and body seemed to wake up to vigour and light; when he became filled with joy and hope, and all his anxieties seemed to be swept away for ever; these moments were but presentiments, as it were, of the one final second (it was never more than a second) in which the fit came upon him.†
Chpt 2.5presentiments = premonitions (supernatural feelings about what is to come)
- Something seen, but indescribable, which filled him with dreadful presentiments?†
Chpt 2.5
- Oh, how mean and hideous of him to feel this conviction, this presentiment†
Chpt 2.5
- "Speak if you dare, and tell me, what is the presentiment?" he repeated to himself, over and over again.†
Chpt 2.5
- I believe in every foolish presentiment that comes into my head.†
Chpt 2.5
- While there he heard excited whispers of someone just found at the bottom of the stairs in a fit; upon which he had hurried to the spot, with a presentiment of evil, and at once recognized the prince.†
Chpt 2.5
- He felt a presentiment that if he remained but a few days more in this place, and among these people, he would be fixed there irrevocably and permanently.†
Chpt 2.11
- All these days since his arrival from Petersburg he had intended to pay her a visit, but some mysterious presentiment had restrained him.†
Chpt 3.2
- Of course I refuse to believe that Evgenie Pavlovitch could have known beforehand of the catastrophe; that is, that at such and such a day at seven o'clock, and all that; but he might well have had a presentiment of the truth.†
Chpt 3.3
- I had a presentiment of what you would do, that day, ever since I saw you first in the morning.†
Chpt 3.3
- It's not the first time that my presentiments have been fulfilled.†
Chpt 3.4presentiments = premonitions (supernatural feelings about what is to come)
- During the evening other impressions began to awaken in his mind, as we have seen, and he forgot his presentiment.†
Chpt 4.7
- THIS same morning dawned for the prince pregnant with no less painful presentiments,—which fact his physical state was, of course, quite enough to account for; but he was so indefinably melancholy,—his sadness could not attach itself to anything in particular, and this tormented him more than anything else.†
Chpt 4.8presentiments = premonitions (supernatural feelings about what is to come)
Definition:
a premonition (a supernatural feeling about what is to come) -- especially of something evil or bad