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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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"Foresee" Quotes from Famous Books

... horrified or hilarious. At one moment I have a tendency to emulate Marguerite doing the Jewel-Song in Faust. "This isn't me! This isn't me!" I keep protesting to myself. But Marguerite, I know, would never be so ungrammatical. And then I begin to foresee difficulties. The mere thought of leaving Casa Grande tears my heart. When we go away, as that wise man of Paris once said, we die a little. This will always seem my home. I could never forsake it utterly. I dread to forsake it for even a portion of each year. I am a part ...

— The Prairie Child • Arthur Stringer

... than you think. This morning, as soon as you are gone, I shall ask Mrs. Pryor's opinion of you. I am apt to rely on her judgment of character, for hitherto I have found it wondrous accurate. Already I foresee a favourable answer to my inquiries.—Do I not ...

— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte

... barbarous, and wandering race. The propensities of the vagabonds who have deserted him are in every drop of his blood. All the parsons in the diocese won't make a Christian of him, and when (after anxieties I shudder to foresee) you flatter yourself that he is civilized, he will run away and leave his shoes and ...

— Tales from Many Sources - Vol. V • Various

... foresee advantages to their town through these contemplated developments and hope for the establishment of a landing place which will provide terminal facilities for steamers handling ...

— Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922, Volume 6, Number 4 • Various

... the mother's heart at the thought of what she could foresee! But the warmth of the mother-love lent life to the mother-wit. Having sent her little ones out of sight, and by a sign conveyed to Saddleback her alarm, she swiftly came back to the man, then she crossed before him, ...

— Johnny Bear - And Other Stories From Lives of the Hunted • E. T. Seton

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