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Unforeseen   /ˌənfɔrsˈin/   Listen
Unforeseen

adjective
1.
Not anticipated.  Synonyms: out of the blue, unanticipated, unlooked-for.  "Unforeseen circumstances" , "A virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy" , "Like a bolt out of the blue"






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"Unforeseen" Quotes from Famous Books



... already wandered through several rooms, when an unforeseen difficulty presented itself. Where is the sleeping-room of the duke? Which way must he turn, in order to find him? He stood there undecided, not daring to ask any of the attendants in the anterooms, lest perhaps they might suspect ...
— The Daughter of an Empress • Louise Muhlbach

... the securing of freedom have often been found to cover unforeseen cases. Such was the fact in the famous decision of Lord Mansfield in 1774, that slavery was against the common law, under which slavery was afterward abolished throughout the British empire; and the decision of the highest court of Massachusetts, that the ...
— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) • Various

... in man's clothes, she inspected the outposts herself at night, she watched and encouraged the soldiers in all exposed places, and was saved several times only by the speed of her horse in unforeseen attacks. One night she rode out, oppressed with care, having just received information that the enemy was about to attempt an entrance into the city by means of bribery that night, and with intent to massacre ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde

... Frederick, "how one suddenly finds oneself in a place one never dreamt of, arriving there in ways most unforeseen and at a time most unforeseen? And doesn't it seem as if the life we lived eight years ago, which was so choke-full of actuality, of real living, had all of ...
— Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann

... and a common human impulse to have a hand in the ordering of their little world. In ten days Robert Grant Burns received a letter from Dewitt, president of the Great Western Film Company, which amply fulfilled those plans, and, as I said, opened the way for other events quite unforeseen. ...
— Jean of the Lazy A • B. M. Bower


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