forethink
Americanverb (used with object)
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Let us try to forethink, to antedate our forgiveness.
From Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. by George MacDonald
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
And anon he would have entered, but a voice said, Flee, Sir Lancelot, and enter not, for and if thou enter thou shalt forethink it.
From Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone
There is time to forethink you ere it come.”
From All's Well Alice's Victory by M. Lewin
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 Charles Godfrey Leland
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
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 E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
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 E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
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
Then, as now, sowing took forethought, discipline and attention to detail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
“It requires a lot of forethought and planning to remain at home,” said Loverde, who lives in Chicago.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
On NBC's "Meet the Press," host Kristen Welker wondered if the Trump administration had put any forethought into their global raft of tariffs.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025
Mbappe had an understanding, even as a teenager, of a wider, bigger plan; a programme of parental planning and forethought now widely known as 'Project Mbappe'.
From BBC ● May 29, 2024
Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself nor has forethought for anything.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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