foresee
verb (used with object)
to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
unforeseeing
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a word derived from
foresee.
Example Sentences
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And then he seemed to discern in her something that was familiar, something which carried him back into a joyous and unforeseeing past, before the necessity of taking thought had made the heavens gray.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
It was that spirit sent Oliver Cromwell himself packing for America, though a heedless and ill-advised and unforeseeing King would not let him go.
From An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
An incarnate essence, a materialised spirit of Nature the unforeseeing, the lovely, the cruel and the immortal; ensouled alone, redeemable only by Humanity and its piteous sacrifice?
From Ayesha, the Return of She by Henry Rider Haggard
He did that which hath proven him not the unforeseeing time-server of a bloodthirsty man, but a follower of his own conscience and the servant of his own zeal.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
The unforeseeing simpleton had actually come on the excursion without a box of matches!
From The Lion's Share by Arnold Bennett
