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Definition of Foreseer
1. n. One who foresees or foreknows.
Definition of Foreseer
1. Noun. A person who foresees ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foreseer
1. one that foresees [n -S] - See also: foresees
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreseer
Literary usage of Foreseer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Vocabulary of Latin by Joseph Henry Allen (1872)
"... charge. provincialis, e, of a province. provisio, onis, F., foresight. proviso,
with foresight. proviso, 3, go out to see. provisor, oris, M., foreseer. ..."
2. Papers of the Manchester Literary Club by Manchester Literary Club (1881)
"Falsely the gods miscall thee the foreseer, Thy very self hast need of a foreseer
To loose the webs of Strength's superior art. (82-86. ..."
3. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"... even he, The blind-eyed, the foreseer, whose steadfast mind bides still; Unto
whom, though dead he abideth, Persephone giveth will, And alone to have ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1888)
"... of science, of philosophy, of moral truth, and not behold the face of Jesus
of Nazareth as the prophet, the foreseer of the later evolution"; and, ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"... a condition necessary to the injurious effect of the original negligence, will
not excuse the first wrong doer if such act ought to have been foreseer. ..."
6. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"... is vates, diviner, foreseer, prophet*. He is possessed of the Platonic furor',
or divine rapture'. Homer's poems were written 'from a free fury'. ..."
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