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Forebode vs Foresee - What's the difference?

forebode | foresee |

In obsolete terms the difference between forebode and foresee

is that forebode is prognostication; presage while foresee is to provide.

As a noun forebode

is prognostication; presage.

forebode

English

Alternative forms

* forbode (much less commonly used)

Verb

(forebod)
  • To predict a future event; to hint at something that will happen (especially as a literary device).
  • * (Nathaniel Hawthorne), The Scarlet Letter
    • There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart.
  • To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly.
  • * Tennyson
    • His heart forebodes a mystery.
  • * Middleton
    • Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, as the certain consequence of Caesar's death.
  • * H. James
    • I have a sort of foreboding about him.

    Noun

  • (obsolete) prognostication; presage

    • See also

    * bode

    foresee

    English

    Verb

  • To anticipate; to predict.
  • * 1838 , Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter
    • "I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."
  • * Bible, Proverbs xxii. 3
    • A prudent man foreseeth the evil.
  • (obsolete) To provide.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.

    See also

    * forsee English irregular verbs