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Foresee vs Foretold - What's the difference?

foresee | foretold |

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

  • 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

    foretold

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (foretell)
  • Verb

    (head)

  • foretell

    English

    Verb

  • To predict; to tell the future before it occurs; to prophesy.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Deeds then undone my faithful tongue foretold .
  • * C. Middleton
  • Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and lustre of his character.

    Derived terms

    * foretellable * foreteller

    References

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