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prescience
/ˈpɹɛʃəns/
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What does prescience mean?
noun
- Such knowledge that is supernatural or paranormal in nature, including the prediction of things that nobody could have known by the ordinary senses.
- Such knowledge that comes from wise and thorough forethought (for example, careful planning).
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IPA pronunciation
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We marvel that we had no prescience of these, and that we did not attain to them sooner.
With a political prescience and broad patriotism they overstepped all authority and concluded the treaty for the purchase of this magnificent domain.
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He told me he believed in divine predestination; I told him I did not, but that I believed in divine prescience.
They seemed to be looking straight through him, and there was no shirking the sensation that they saw and comprehended things with an unnatural prescience.
He argued with a prescience then not possessed by any living man that at the western extremity of Lake Superior would grow up a great city.