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[ noun ] an impression that something might be the case
Examples "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong" Used in print (Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)Emerson , in his lecture , refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight , that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before , whether dreaming or waking , a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room , and heard precisely this dialogue , at some former hour , they know not when '' . (Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)Jubal did not hear of Digby 's disappearance when it was announced , and , when he did , while he had a fleeting suspicion , he dismissed it ; if Mike had had_a_finger_in it , he had gotten_away_with it - and what happened to supreme bishops worried Jubal not at_all as_long_as he was n't bothered . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)Our suspicions eventually centered , by the process of elimination , on a grocer 's boy , a thoroughly bad_hat , who delivered cartons to the people overhead . Related terms |
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[ noun ] being of a suspicious nature
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