presentiment, presentment

presentiment, presentment
A presentiment is a sense of something about to occur, a feeling, a foreboding: "Don had a presentiment that his good luck would soon run out." Presentment is a rarely used word meaning a "presentation," "the act of presenting, offering, or submitting": "This draft will be honored on presentment to the bank." "Many stores prefer cash to the presentment of a credit card."

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