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fore sight

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fore⋅sight

[fawr-sahyt, fohr-]
–noun
1. care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
2. the act or power of foreseeing; prevision; prescience.
3. an act of looking forward.
4. knowledge or insight gained by or as by looking forward; a view of the future.
5. Surveying.
a. a sight or reading taken on a forward point.
b. (in leveling) a rod reading on a point the elevation of which is to be determined.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME forsight. See fore-, sight


foresighted, adjective
fore⋅sight⋅ed⋅ly, adverb
fore⋅sight⋅ed⋅ly, adverb
fore⋅sight⋅ed⋅ness, noun
foresightful, adjective


1. See prudence. 4. foreknowledge.
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