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English
Etymology
From presentiment + -al.
Pronunciation
Adjective
presentimental (comparative more presentimental, superlative most presentimental)
- Of the nature of a presentiment; foreboding.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 13, in Vanity Fair , London: Bradbury and Evans , published 1848, →OCLC:Amelia heard the claret bell ringing as she sat nervously upstairs. She thought, somehow, it was a mysterious and presentimental bell. Of the presentiments which some people are always having, some surely must come right.
- 1849 (posth.) Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes and Lectures on Shakespeare and some of the Old Dramatists, "Notes on Macbeth":
- O! the affecting beauty of the death of Cawdor, and the presentimental speech of the king: