Foresaw vs Foresay - What's the difference?
foresaw | foresay |
(foresee)
To anticipate; to predict.
* 1838 , Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter
* Bible, Proverbs xxii. 3
(obsolete) To provide.
* Francis Bacon
To say beforehand; predict; foretell.
To decree; ordain; appoint.
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
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(head)Anagrams
*foresee
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- "I foresee in this," he says, "the breaking up of our profession."
- A prudent man foreseeth the evil.
- Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life.
See also
* forsee English irregular verbsforesay
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- Let ordinance Come as the gods foresay it — Shakespeare.