forefeeling

English

Verb

forefeeling

1. present participle and gerund of forefeel

Noun

forefeeling (plural forefeelings)

1. (archaic) A presentiment.
   • 1551, Thomas More, Utopia, translated by Raphe Robynson, Cambridge University Press, 1922, reprinted from Hearne's edition 1716, pp. 148-9, [1]

     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.

   • 1798, The Critical Review‎^[2], volume 24, London: A. Hamilton, page 397:

     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, [3]

     […] 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, —