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Prescient   /prˈɛsiənt/   Listen
Prescient

adjective
1.
Perceiving the significance of events before they occur.





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"Prescient" Quotes from Famous Books



... Are ever on the move, and take what comes; They are not parasites like plants and men Rooted in that which fed them yesterday. Not even Memory shall follow Delphis, For I will yield to all impulse save hers, Therein alone subject to prescient rigour; Lest she should lure me back among the dying— Pilfer the present for the beggar past. Free minds must bargain with each greedy moment And seize the most that lies to hand at once. Ye are too old to understand my words; I yet have youth enough, and ...
— Georgian Poetry 1911-12 • Various


Words linked to "Prescient" :   prescience, discerning


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