foreseeing

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English

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Etymology 1

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From foresee +‎ -ing.

Verb

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foreseeing

  1. present participle and gerund of foresee

Etymology 2

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From Middle English foreseing, forseying, equivalent to foresee +‎ -ing.

Noun

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foreseeing (plural foreseeings)

  1. The act by which something is foreseen; a prophetic vision.
    • 1932, James Branch Cabell, These Restless Heads:
      But at other times my magic is a true magic, and my looking runs very lightly over all the days which are to come before my client has quite done with earth's daylight; and at these times I must tell, will I or will I not, the truth about my foreseeings []