Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To guess beforehand; conjecture.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To conjecture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To guess beforehand.
- verb transitive To
forecast . - verb transitive To
anticipate ;expect . - verb transitive To
conjecture ;assume . - noun A
conjecture ; anassumption .
Etymologies
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From Middle English foregessen, equivalent to fore- + guess.
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Examples
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He will be welcome there, I foreguess; for every northman is either for Warwick or for Lancaster, and the two must unite now, I trow. "
The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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He will be welcome there, I foreguess; for every northman is either for Warwick or for Lancaster, and the two must unite now, I trow. "
The Last of the Barons — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
bilby commented on the word foreguess
To foregive is better than to foreguess.
August 19, 2022
steward17 commented on the word foreguess
Bilby I searched for "foregive" here and it came up empty, I forgive you for using it but will you explain was it a jest for your poetic joke?
August 20, 2022
bilby commented on the word foreguess
As forgive is to forget, so foregive is to foreguess. Guilty.
August 21, 2022