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noun

Foresight n.

The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.

Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought. "This seems an unseasonable foresight." "A random expense, without plan or foresight."

(Surv.) Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction.

(Gun.) Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Foresight" Quotes from Famous Books

... the question, was ordered "at first to carry out the expulsion in the government of Grodno alone," and to postpone for a later occasion the application of the same measure to the other "governments entrusted to his command." Simultaneously considerable foresight was displayed in instructing the grand duke to wait with the expulsion of the Jews "until the conclusion of the military conscription going on at present." Evidently there was some fear of disorders and complications. It was thought wiser to seize the children for the army first and ...

— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow

... return to trace the individual adventures in this bloody drama of the personages of our story. Every possible provision that wise foresight could suggest had been made for the defence of the Niagara Frontier. Fort George had been strengthened and revictualled. A new fort—Fort Mississauga—with star-shaped ramparts, moat and stockade, had been constructed ...

— Neville Trueman the Pioneer Preacher • William Henry Withrow

... exclude men, who combine a keen sense of self-respect with large intellectual capacity, from a position in which the one is as constantly offended, as the other is neutralised. Notwithstanding the attempt of George the Third to resuscitate the royal authority, Hume's foresight has been so completely justified that no one now dreams of the crown exerting the ...

— Hume - (English Men of Letters Series) • T.H. Huxley

... with profound repugnance and sorrow to those painful days by the faults and misfortunes of which France was launched into dangerous enterprises, such that men of the greatest foresight could not discern their end. Our country has paid very dearly for the fatal error which overthrew the throne of the King who had for eighteen years governed it with a wisdom, prudence, and moderation acknowledged even by his enemies ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne

... was his deep foresight that he did not forget to grasp so favourable an opportunity for settling the initial difficulty between himself and nurse in the matter of the kitten, which had led up logically to all that had happened, and so prevent any misunderstanding on ...

— Teddy - The Story of a Little Pickle • J. C. Hutcheson

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