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Definition of Foresight

1. Noun. Providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future.

Definition of Foresight

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

Definition of Foresight

1. Noun. The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future. ¹

2. Noun. the front sight on a rifle or similar weapon ¹

3. Noun. (surveying) a bearing taken forwards towards a new object ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Foresight

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foresight

Literary usage of Foresight

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"Enter Mrs. foresight and Mrs. Frail MRS. FRAIL — What have you to do to watch me? ... Mrs. foresight — Why, was I ever in any of those places? what do you ..."

2. The Great Rebellion: A History of the Civil War in the United States by Joel Tyler Headley (1866)
"With a foresight that seems almost like a divine premonition, ... Having thus done all that human sagacity or foresight could accomplish, he anxiously ..."

3. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1906)
"censure is passed on him whose want of foresight or want of self-restraint is productive of suffering, if only the effect is sufficiently remote. ..."

4. A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language ...by John Walker by John Walker (1806)
"(ун) Viewing al a distance ; acting with foresight. .... (533) foresight, timely care, forecast, the afl of providing ; the care of God over created beings; ..."

5. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"11 Scl Am 114:577 Je 3 '16 foresight Are you looking ahead? W: J. Cromie. Am M 82:55 S '16 Forest fires Break your ..."

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