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Definition of Presciences
1. prescience [n] - See also: prescience
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presciences
Literary usage of Presciences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. William Wetmore Story and His Friends: From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections by Henry James (1903)
"These sequences, these presciences certainly exist by Thames and Seine and Hudson,
but quite, as they become familiar, without making us thrill at their ..."
2. Authors and I by Charles Lewis Hind (1921)
"... nor The abhorred spring of Dis, With seething presciences Affirm The preparate
worm, Wise-Unto-Hell Ecclesiast Who siev'dst life to the gritted last! ..."
3. Authors and I by Charles Lewis Hind (1920)
"... nor The abhorred spring of Dig, With seething presciences Affirm The preparate
worm, Wise-Unto-Hell Ecclesiast Who siev'dst life to the gritted last! ..."
4. Russell's Magazine by Paul Hamilton Payne (1858)
"Puss, that purring, coil'd up snug, Keeps the centre of the rug; All have instincts
fine, that teach presciences we cannot reach ; All domestic, ..."
5. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"We disrelish and deny ourselves cheap and natural gratifications, through
speculative presciences and doubts about the future. ..."
6. Personality and the Christian Ideal: A Discussion of Personality in the by John Wright Buckham (1909)
"These questions concerning the rims and edges, the preliminaries and presciences
of personality, are baffling. And yet they are legitimate and must be faced ..."
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