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Definition of: premonition
(prē′mə·nish′ən, prem′ə-) noun
1. An actual warning of something yet to occur.
2. A presentiment not based on information received; an instinctive foreboding. [<OF premonicion <LL praemonitio, -onis <praemonitus, pp. of praemonere premonish <prae- before + monere warn]
—pre·mon·i·to·ry (pri·mon′ə·tôr′ē, -tō′rē) adjective
—pre·mon′i·to′·ri·ly adverb
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