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premonition

/ˌpriːməˈnɪʃən/ noun C2
  1. A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
  2. A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).

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Then a strange reaction took place; he who had just abandoned 5,000,000 endeavored to save the 50,000 francs he had left, and sooner than give them up he resolved to enter again upon a life of privation—he was deluded by the hopefulness that is a premonition of madness.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 1086 · C1

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