Meaning of forefeeling | Babel Free

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A presentiment.

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“1551, Thomas More, Utopia, translated by Raphe Robynson, Cambridge University Press, 1922, reprinted from Hearne's edition 1716, pp. 148-9, https://archive.org/details/utopia__00moreuoft For this they take for a verye evel token, as thoughe the soule beynge in dispaire and vexed in conscience, through some privie and secret forefeiling of the punishement now at hande were aferde to depart.”

“The account of the earthquake in Calabria, in 1783, contains curious particulars of that calamitous event. […] 'Much more remarkable undoubtedly were the presentiments which were seen in living creatures. Man alone remained free from these forefeelings; neither on his body nor on the chearfulness of his mind had it the smallest influence […]'”

“1843, James Russell Lowell, "Prometheus" in The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Ten Volumes, Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1890, Vol. VII, p. 114, https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZYcRAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false […] now, now set free / This essence, not to die, but to become / Part of that awful Presence which doth haunt / The palaces of tyrants, to scare off, / With its grim eyes and fearful whisperings / And hideous sense of utter loneliness, / All hope of safety, all desire of peace, / All but the loathed forefeeling of blank death,”

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