What is "prescience"

Usage examples of "prescience".

But summer is dead and gone, the earth is waiting, suspense and ecstasy are gnawing at the hearts of men, the brooding prescience of frost is there.

October was there with its strange, brooding presences of sorrow and delight--its sense of something lost and vanished, gone for ever, its still impending prescience of something grand and wild to come.

America, and of the wilderness, and it haunted them like legends, and pierced them like a sword, and filled them with a wild and swelling prescience of joy that was like sorrow and delight.

Such remarkable prescience, in fact, that I stared at the lad in incomprehension.

But when she looked out on the gallery and saw the two black children, both of them barefoot, bending down attentively on each side of Flower while she showed them how to print their names in chalk on the piece of slate, Abigail felt a prescience about the future that was more optimistic than any she had experienced in years.

For the remainder of his life he was known for his bravery as a soldier, his refusal to discuss the war, his prescience about human events and his irreverence toward all those who seek authority and power over others.

She had foreseen his arrival and knew with an odd and inexplicable prescience that he would bring urgent news.

I am using my mind, my prescience, to calculate a safe course through folded space.

With her prescience, Norma saw the future, like reflections within reflections, echoing to infinity.

Spring Street in New York, which would now be forgotten to history except that one of its early proprietors had the uncommon prescience in 1905 to introduce Americans to a dish for which they would develop an abiding addiction: the pizza.

Pelagius taught that salvation or reprobation depended on personal deserts, and that the Divine election was merely through prescience of merits.

For over sixty years, Kiyori had used prescience to guide and protect the clan.

It seemed to be caused by the same mysterious workings that brought prescience into the bloodline.

He felt himself touched briefly by his powers of prescience, seeing himself infected by the wild race consciousness that was moving the human universe toward chaos.

The familiarity of that face, the features out of numberless visions in his earliest prescience, shocked Paul to stillness.