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Foresee v. t. (past foresaw; past part. foreseen; pres. part. foreseeing)

To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. "A prudent man foreseeth the evil."

To provide. (Obs.) "Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life."

Foresee v. i. (past foresaw; past part. foreseen; pres. part. foreseeing) To have or exercise foresight. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Foresee" Quotes from Famous Books

... awake that they can use their senses, yet are not capable of reasoning,... for they neither (properly speaking) sleep when they seem to do so, nor awake when they seem awake; for they do not of themselves foresee, nor are they moved by any human instrumentality; neither know they their own condition; nor do they exert any prerogative or motion of their own; but all this is done under the power and by the energy of the deity. For that they who are so affected do not ...

— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various

... one cannot foresee; one does not mean to do them; they do themselves. You'll do just the ...

— A City Schoolgirl - And Her Friends • May Baldwin

... must end in Germany. The French generals have no such delusions about German science or foresight or capacity as dominates the smart dinner chatter of England. One knows so well that detestable type of English folly, and its voice of despair: "They plan everything. They foresee everything." This paralysing Germanophobia is not common among the French. The war, the French generals said, might take—well, it certainly looked like taking longer than the winter. Next summer perhaps. Probably, if nothing ...

— War and the Future • H. G. Wells

... do that," said Boyne, with the faith in his family that did not fail him in the darkest hour. "But what I mean is that if anything comes on you that you can't foresee and you can't get out of—" The next step was not clear, and ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... women's education is in a ferment in Germany at present, and though everyone interested is ready to talk of it, everyone tells you that it is impossible to foresee exactly what reforms are coming. There are to be new schools established, Lyceen and Ober-Lyceen, and Ober-Lyceen will prepare for matriculation. When girls have matriculated from one of these schools they will be ready for the university, ...

— Home Life in Germany • Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

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