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Foresees vs Foreseek - What's the difference?

foresees | foreseek |

As verbs the difference between foresees and foreseek

is that foresees is (foresee) while foreseek is (lb) to seek beforehand; seek in advance.

foresees

English

Verb

(head)
  • (foresee)

    • 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

    foreseek

    English

    Verb

  • (lb) To seek beforehand; seek in advance.
  • *1861 , Chauncy Hare Townshend, The three gates: in verse :
    • But still I did forget, When I was with you, all I had foresought To utter; for an ocean of new thought Was by your presence into motion set.
  • *1904 , Charles Thomas Bateman, John Clifford: Free Church leader and preacher :
    • Tea, served in a picturesque spot, foresought and foreordained by the secretary, follows the examination of the local "lion" and breaks the ramble in two.
  • *1960 , Society for Contemporary Studies, New Delhi, Mankind :
    • The pamphlet is an attempt to analyse and foreseek the prospects of the foreign policies of certain Afro-Asian countries.
  • *1986 , Giacomo Balla, Maurizio Fagiolo Dell'Arco, Works by Giacomo Balla :
    • And this striving for objectivity which spurs his interest for scientific phenomena, e.g. x-rays which he mentions in his notebook, urges him (one is tempted to say: forces him) to foreseek appearance for the substance of truthfulness.
  • *2009 , Abhira Fashaukahn, Robbery of the Word That Meant Freed :
    • Yet I (knew) I must lose (her) to prove “her” inhibitions would not be foresought . And so in departing, I had lost my “second” of the best of friends (save Jesus) by a systematic (misconstrued) freedom of “faith,” and left! (NAKED) to the “WORLD”!