<noun.feeling> a steadily escalating sense of foreboding the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case
an early warning about a future event
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Premonition \Pre`mo*ni"tion\, n. [L. praemonitio. See {Premonish}.] Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger.
And that's the way it happened." The 30-year-old Douglas's premonition about the Tyson match wasn't reflected in the odds, which were 40-or-50-to-1 in favor of Tyson in establishments that deigned to accept wagers, or in Douglas's record.
He was just 16, and all his life sex and death were to remain inextricably linked in his mind. Courting his first wife Emma, he saw her standing by a garden gate as if against a cross, and had a premonition that in marriage he would crucify her.
To my eye, the gesture is the Mother of God's response - a little fearful because she is only a woman - to a premonition of the pain and the glory yet to come. So let us not sell short this profound and wonderful image by Robert Campin of Tournai.