forethink
Americanverb (used with object)
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Nay, said Gawaine, ye shall not but if I be beat; it shall not forethink me then if ye go after me.
From Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Raphael Holinshed
For my own part, I saw them not, but I am resolved that so many people did not all combine or forethink to make the report.
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Paine, Ralph Delahaye
Therefore they should be trained or urged to forethink or reflect seriously and often on the cure or process proposed.
From The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence by Leland, Charles Godfrey
Let us try to forethink, to antedate our forgiveness.
From Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. by MacDonald, George
This indeed I know, that we generally think before on our future actions, and that that forethinking is present, but the action whereof we forethink is not yet, because it is to come.
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)
He’s not nimble enough or forethinking enough to engage in intellectual battle with guests who are not there to seek truth but to recruit converts.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2022
"I think it was very thoughtful and forethinking of her," Korn says.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 8, 2011
In that immense unweeting Mind is shown One far above forethinking; processive, Yet superconscious; a Clairvoyancy That knows not what It knows, yet works therewith.—
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
It is uncertaine where death looks for us; let us expect her everie where: the premeditation of death, is a forethinking of libertie.
From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various
Which, when we have set upon, and have begun to do what we were forethinking, then shall that action be; because then it is no longer future, but present.
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)
These require no assembly and very little forethought beyond remembering to throw them in the basket.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
“We’re just very lucky my father had the forethought to do this,” Sydney said.
From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026
"I just thought it was crazy to put something like that in this community, with no forethought, no prior authorisation, not even asking the community," he said.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2026
That keen eye and forethought created trust with his customers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2025
Well, I amended, they hadn’t exactly seen it, since enough of the original time travelers had had the conscience and forethought to realize what was happening and fix things before everything went too haywire.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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