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Prescient   /prˈɛsiənt/   Listen
Prescient

adjective
1.
Perceiving the significance of events before they occur.





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"Prescient" Quotes from Famous Books



... with President Hadley on Friday; Saturday I went to New York; Sunday and Monday I spent at the Yale Club, writing; Tuesday, this telltale letter fell under the prescient eye of my brother. On that day he at once got in touch with me by telephone. We briefly discussed the situation. He did not intimate that he believed me to be in elation. He simply urged me not to attempt ...
— A Mind That Found Itself - An Autobiography • Clifford Whittingham Beers
... begun. Lee's hours of triumph had yet to come. The South was aware that he was sage in council; he had yet to prove his mettle in the field. But there was at least one Virginia soldier who knew his worth. With the prescient sympathy of a kindred spirit Jackson had divined his daring and his genius, and although he held always to his own opinions, he had no will but that of his great commander. With how absolute a trust his ...
— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson


Words linked to "Prescient" :   prescience, discerning


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