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Foresaw vs Foresay - What's the difference?

foresaw | foresay |

As verbs the difference between foresaw and foresay

is that foresaw is simple past of foresee while foresay is to say beforehand; predict; foretell.

foresaw

English

Verb

(head)
  • (foresee)
  • Anagrams

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    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

    foresay

    English

    Verb

  • To say beforehand; predict; foretell.
  • To decree; ordain; appoint.
  • Let ordinance Come as the gods foresay it — Shakespeare.