The act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)

Usage examples of prevision.

And if we recognize in the great catastrophic myths and previsions of the poets and scientists the fundamental truth that the things which are seen are temporal, while the things alone which are unseen are eternal, the end being a regular and remote sequel in the creative plan of God, free from anger, retributive disappointment, or cruelty will not alarm us.

He is a self ruling intelligence, using a dependent organism for his own ends, comprehending his own destiny, successively developing its conditions and acquiring the materials for occupying and improving them, with a prevision of eternity.

The unexpected, lurid death of Lannes-- Rigid as iron, reaped down like a straw-- Tiptoed Assassination haunting round In unthought thoroughfares, the near success Of Staps the madman, argue to forbid The riskful blood of my previsioned line And potence for dynastic empery To linger vialled in my veins alone.

And if a method could be found to make them react a little faster, so that the attack came in one second and not in fifty-four, then even the prevision of the Predictors might be too slow.

So often have his previsions been deceived, that he has reached a state of complete scepticism.

The door was his last visual impression, for something descended on his head at that moment, and his consciousness was blotted out by the supervening night he had previsioned He had been sand-bagged, very quietly and efficiently, by a twenty-first century thug.

Though mating was promiscuous, sometimes Capo and Leaf would take themselves off into the forest for days on end—just the two of them—and during such safaris of tenderness, previsioning the sexual privacy of later kinds, most of Leaf's children by Capo had been conceived, including Elephant.

There was no prevision in this: it was the marginal response to a marginally erotic situation, to wit an unpurposed seminal discharge.