forethink
Americanverb (used with object)
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“Your heart cannot foretell, but you might have sense enough to forethink; and it is sure that I little dreamed of this when I brought you here from the naked gloom of Yell.”
From Prisoners of Conscience by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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
And anon a voice said to him, Flee, Launcelot, and enter not, for thou oughtest not to do it; and if thou enter thou shalt forethink it.
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 Ralph Delahaye Paine
There is time to forethink you ere it come.”
From All's Well Alice's Victory by M. Lewin
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
It is part of the burden of the executive head that he must do the forethinking not only for himself but for those under him.
From Power of Mental Imagery Being the Fifth of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Warren Hilton
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 Thomas Hardy
But, in fact, forethinking in any way is the minor or initiatory stage of Suggestion.
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
Not bad for something he quickly bashed out in bulletin format without much forethought, in response to a post a former colleague had written.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 8, 2026
"What we do need though is some forethought on this."
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025
It seems that the administration may have not applied its usual level of forethought and analytical rigor to this decision.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2025
Then there is the conspiracy to trespass and all the forethought that allegedly went into this.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025
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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