prescienceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 prescience, from Old French prescience, from Latin praescientia.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈpɹɛsɪ.əns/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈpɹɛʃəns/, /ˈpɹɛsi.əns/, /ˈpɹɛʃiəns/, (sometimes) /ˈpɹi-/
• 韻: -ɛsɪəns

名詞

prescience (usually uncountable, plural presciences)

1. Knowledge of events before they take place. [from 14th c.]

   Synonyms: precognition, premonition

   Coordinate term: foretelling

   Near-synonyms: foreknowledge, foresight

   • 1754, Jonathan Edwards, An Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting that Freedom of the Will which is supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency:

     God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents

   • 1815, Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, On a Sleeping Infant, page 198:

     O thou, who thus the eye hast veil'd,
     The book of fate so slowly given,
     I thank thee, that thou hast conceal'd
     From man the prescience of heaven.

   • 2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, in Rail, page 83:

     With prescience, the Barlows designed them to withstand a third more weight than they would be expected to bear in normal conditions - future proofing the bridge for the weight of trains we see using it today.

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