Definition of Foreseer

1. n. One who foresees or foreknows.

Definition of Foreseer

1. Noun. A person who foresees ¹

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Definition of Foreseer

1. one that foresees [n -S] - See also: foresees

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreseer

fores
foresaid
foresail
foresails
foresaw
foresay
foresays
foresee
foreseeabilities
foreseeability
foreseeable
foreseeably
foreseeing
foreseeingly
foreseen
foreseer (current term)
foreseers
foresees
foreseize
foreseized
foreseizing
foresend
foreset
foresetting
foreshadow
foreshadowed
foreshadower
foreshadowers
foreshadowing
foreshadowings

Literary usage of Foreseer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Vocabulary of Latin by Joseph Henry Allen (1872)
"... charge. provincialis, e, of a province. provisio, onis, F., foresight. proviso, with foresight. proviso, 3, go out to see. provisor, oris, M., foreseer. ..."

2. Papers of the Manchester Literary Club by Manchester Literary Club (1881)
"Falsely the gods miscall thee the foreseer, Thy very self hast need of a foreseer To loose the webs of Strength's superior art. (82-86. ..."

3. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"... even he, The blind-eyed, the foreseer, whose steadfast mind bides still; Unto whom, though dead he abideth, Persephone giveth will, And alone to have ..."

4. The Popular Science Monthly (1888)
"... of science, of philosophy, of moral truth, and not behold the face of Jesus of Nazareth as the prophet, the foreseer of the later evolution"; and, ..."

5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"... a condition necessary to the injurious effect of the original negligence, will not excuse the first wrong doer if such act ought to have been foreseer. ..."

6. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"... is vates, diviner, foreseer, prophet*. He is possessed of the Platonic furor', or divine rapture'. Homer's poems were written 'from a free fury'. ..."

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