forethink
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
“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
There is time to forethink you ere it come.”
From All's Well Alice's Victory by M. Lewin
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
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
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 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
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
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
And shopping was something that required time, planning and forethought.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
“We’re just very lucky my father had the forethought to do this,” Sydney said.
From MarketWatch ● May 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
He told her he had often noticed that she lacked forethought “Wasn’t it enough to think of going to the Cheniere and waking you up?” she laughed.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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