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clairvoyant
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clairvoyant \Clair*voy"ant\, a. [F., fr. clair clear + voyant, p. pr. of voir to see. See Clear , and Vision .] Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"having psychic gifts," 1837, earlier "having insight" (1670s), from special use of French clairvoyant "clear-sighted, discerning, judicious" (13c.), from clair (see clear (adj.)) + voyant "seeing," present participle of voir , from Latin videre "to see" ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Clairvoyant may refer to: A person with the power of clairvoyance , an alleged form of extra-sensor perception The Clairvoyant , a 1934 film starring Claude Rains and Fay Wray '' The Clairvoyant (1982 film) , a 1982 thriller film starring Perry King La ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses foreseeing the future [syn: precognitive , second-sighted ] n. someone who has the power of clairvoyance
Usage examples of clairvoyant.
Do you get clairvoyant messages of a wider nature, concerning public events, such as disasters?
A quick clairvoyant scan of the house as the door opened revealed no trace of Bianca.
Ostherhaut is clairvoyant and has a large measure of empathy, like you, but refuses to admit it.
Sam had picked up on her clairvoyant awareness that The Gull would soon provoke the last battle for her mind and soul.
Sam must have run into that shiftless clairvoyant imp that resided down there in her mind and gotten distracted, she decided, or to give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he was just cautious.
Partly in the hope that I could somehow clarify those foggy, clairvoyant perceptions of danger and see exactly what violence lay ahead, and partly because I was determined not to be intimidated by the aura of evil that clung to the big machine, I shrugged off the backpack I had been carrying, unrolled my sleeping bag, and made ready to pass the last hours of the night right there in the faint patchwork of purple-black shadows and ash-gray moonlight, with the wheel looming over me.
I closed my eyes and refused to look at the half-ruined school as we drew nearer it, and I tried desperately to build the mental equivalent of a lead shield around my sixth sense, to shut out the unwanted clairvoyant radiations that, instead of water, composed the oncoming destructive wave.
However, the clairvoyant impression of impending violence did not lessen.
I had no clairvoyant impression that the Ferris wheel was a danger to us tonight.
Never mind that my psychic powers are limited, that the clairvoyant images and impressions they bring me are often vague or confusing, and that I have little-and frequently no-control over them.
Suddenly I sensed another terrible secret in her, and I knew with clairvoyant certainty that something had happened in the orphanage that was at least equal to the horror of Abner Kady.
My family knew that I was clairvoyant, and my premonitions and psychic insights were taken seriously.
You see, though the accuracy and validity of my occasional clairvoyant visions had been established, there were many who did not view my unusual talents as a blessing.
I was nonetheless so afflicted with clairvoyant perceptions of unspecific violence that I collapsed and had to be taken home.
I could not obtain a clairvoyant vision of these crimes while in his company because, until he arrived at wherever he was going and looked over the opportunities for destruction, he did not know, himself, where he would land a blow.