avision

Etymology

From Middle English avisioun, from Old French avision.

avision means A vision of a prophetic or admonitory nature. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

Why this word is great

AVISION — [Noun] A vision of a prophetic or admonitory nature, typically dream-born and freighted with symbolic weight. From Middle English *avisioun*, from Old French *avision*, a word shaped for the sight that is more than sight. Unlike a "revelation," which implies a direct, often divine, disclosure of abstract truth, or a mere "dream," a general cascade of nocturnal images, an avision is a stark tableau delivered to the inner eye, a warning etched in phantasm. It is the spectral arm clad in samite rising from the mere, the three witches stirring their pot upon the blasted heath, the great, doomed city shimmering above the desert sands—a midnight bulletin from fate, decoded only in the waking ruin.

noun

A vision of a prophetic or admonitory nature.“When the Emperour with great humilitie had thus earnestly prayed, the same night after, by the great mercy of God, an auision was shewed vnto hym to his comforte. Wherin it séemed, that [302] béeing solemnly cited to appere, he heard a voyce from heauen, as it were of oure Lorde Iesus Chryst, saying: Bring me hither Mauricius.”