Foresee vs Foretold - What's the difference?
foresee | foretold |
To anticipate; to predict.
* 1838 , Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter
* Bible, Proverbs xxii. 3
(obsolete) To provide.
* Francis Bacon
(foretell)
To predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.
* Alexander Pope
* C. Middleton
As verbs the difference between foresee and foretold
is that foresee is to anticipate; to predict while foretold is simple past of foretell.foresee
English
Verb
- "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 verbsforetold
English
Verb
(head)Verb
(head)foretell
English
Verb
- Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold .
- Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and lustre of his character.