forethink
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
There is time to forethink you ere it come.”
From All's Well Alice's Victory by Lewin, M.
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)
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
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
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
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 Leland, Charles Godfrey
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)
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
“It requires a lot of forethought and planning to remain at home,” said Loverde, who lives in Chicago.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
These require no assembly and very little forethought beyond remembering to throw them in the basket.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 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
Some rise to present danger, not I. My gift is forethought.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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