Foreguess
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Foreguess is a verb meaning (transitive) To guess beforehand.
Meaning
(transitive) To guess beforehand.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To forecast.
- (transitive) To anticipate; expect.
- (transitive) To conjecture; assume.
- A conjecture; an assumption.
Example Sentences
" [...] He will be welcome there I foreguess; for every northman is either or Warwick or for Lancaster; and the two must unite now, I trow."
The rest—Rannach and Tekah, Yazte and Kahteney, Arcole—waited on him, on his response. He was, no matter his protestations, the Prophet, and they hesitated to foreguess him.
[…] the idea – to put it in chemical language – that an allotropic form of gold may be discovered, so far from being an outcome of superstitious ignorance, was a foreguess of genius, which has led to brilliant and momentous discoveries, of which we are nearer to the cradle than to the maturity.
Word Forms
- foreguesses
- foreguessing
- foreguessed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include forejudge, foresee, presage, forecount, prefigure, forestate.
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