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Farseeing   Listen
adjective
Farseeing  adj.  
1.
Able to see to a great distance; farsighted.
2.
Having foresight as regards the future.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Farseeing" Quotes from Famous Books



... jewels; she wore velvet and satin and lace every day; she was a great lady, and had a house like a palace. Laure herself did not say so much. In her secret heart, Mere Giraud often longed for more, but she was a discreet and farseeing woman. ...
— Mere Girauds Little Daughter • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... keep clearly and constantly in mind the difference between fact and opinion. The opinions of a great scholar and of a farseeing statesman may be based on fact; but not being fact they contain some element of inference, which is never as certain. When we come to the next chapter we shall consider this difference more closely. In the meantime it is worth while to urge the importance of cultivating scruples on the subject ...
— The Making of Arguments • J. H. Gardiner
... everything at E-SID-LAM (the temple there). Like a charging bull, I bore down my enemies. Beloved of TU-TU (a name of Marduk) in my love for Borsippa, of high purpose untiring, I cared for E-ZI-DA (temple of Nabu there). As a god, king of the city, knowing and farseeing, I looked to the plantations of Dilbat and constructed its granaries for IB (the god of Dilbat) the powerful, the lord of the insignia, the sceptre and crown, with which he invested me. As the beloved of MA-MA (consort of IB), I set fast the bas-reliefs at Kish and ...
— Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters • C. H. W. Johns
... party, as a whole and as at present constituted, will declare for liberalism and parliamentary government and for a fair redistricting of the divisions in Germany which elect members to the Reichstag, but there are many wise and farseeing men in this party; and its leaders, Dr. Spahn and Erzberger, ...
— My Four Years in Germany • James W. Gerard
... wore velvet and satin and lace every day; she was a great lady, and had a house like a palace. Laure herself did not say so much. In her secret heart, Mere Giraud often longed for more, but she was a discreet and farseeing woman. ...
— Mere Girauds Little Daughter • Frances Hodgson Burnett


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