Forego vs Forsee - What's the difference?
forego | forsee |
To precede, to go before.
* Wordsworth
; to abandon, to relinquish
* 1762 Waller, T. The White Witch of the Wood, or the Devil of Broxbon'', in ''The Beauties of all the Magazines Selected, for the Year 1762 , Vol. I (February), page 34:
To neglect; overlook; disregard; despise.
*1882 , Victor Roy, A Masonic Poem by Harriet Annie Wilkins :
*1841', Gordon, ''History of Scots Affairs, from 1637 - 1641'' (quote from ' 1638 ):
*
To oversee; superintend; direct.
As verbs the difference between forego and forsee
is that forego is to precede, to go before or forego can be ; to abandon, to relinquish while forsee is to neglect; overlook; disregard; despise.forego
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Verb
- pleasing remembrance of a thought foregone
Usage notes
* The sense to precede'' is usually found in the form of the participles ''foregone'' (especially in the phrase "a foregone conclusion") and ''foregoing (usually used either attributively, as in "the foregoing discussion", or substantively, as in "subject to the foregoing").Etymology 2
See forgoVerb
- […] for on no other terms does she desire a reconciliation, but will sooner forego all the hopes to which her birth entitles her, and get her bread by service, than ever yield to become the wife of the ——.
Usage notes
* Many writers prefer the spelling forgo on the grounds that it avoids ambiguity.References
* *Anagrams
* English irregular verbsforsee
English
Verb
- Could I forsee the sunken rocks of life?
- The reasone why the Commissioner did so muche presse the reading of the declinator was, because he forsaw that they meant to putt him to a dilemma which still should bring ane inconvenience along with it [...]
- It was possible to foresee that the coming winter would be a hard one.