vbl. sb. [f. prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. FOREFEEL; a feeling beforehand, presentiment.
1551. R. Robinson, trans. More’s Utop. (Arb.), 147. For this they take for a verye euel token, as thoughe the soule beynge in dispaire, and vexed in conscience, through some priuie and secret forefeiling of the punishement now at hande were aferde to depart.
1605. Camden, Rem., Epitaphes, 28. The inuention of them proceeded from the presage or forfeeling of immortality implanted in all men naturally.
1715. trans. C’tess Daunoy’s Wks., 425. The Day appear’d, and they took their Leaves with an ominous Fore-feeling of their approaching Misfortune; they bid adieu with more than ordinary Affliction.
1803. Southey, Lett. (1856), I 241. His father has the same sentiment of wonder and the same forefeeling that it is a prodigious and an unnatural intellect,—and that he will not live to be a man.
1878. Dowden, Stud. Lit., 147. Yet he did not really despond; within him lay a forefeeling of the great destiny which was due to his nation.
