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Forseek vs Forsee - What's the difference?

forseek | forsee |

As verbs the difference between forseek and forsee

is that forseek is to seek thoroughly (for); seek out while forsee is to neglect; overlook; disregard; despise.

forseek

English

Verb

  • To seek thoroughly (for); seek out.
  • *1614 , J. Davies, An Eglogue :
  • Vartue it's sed (and is an old said saw) Is for hur selfe, to be forsought alone.
  • *1908 , James Gairdner, William Hunt, Lollardy and the Reformation in England: an historical survey :
  • And also the lay fee, sometime the noble and sometime the commons, without difference, upon chance and displeasure grown, or of truth forsought and feigned, he doth impoverish, destroy, and kill, for none other intent but that he may enjoy and use his foul pleasures [...]
  • *1919 , Melancthon Woolsey Stryker, Vesper bells :
  • Stoutly undertake. Pierce the fell stratagem. Undo the fraud. Strike hard thine obstacles. So shalt thou bear Thyself to purpose. Hand and heart may ache : But idle whims shall not make thee a gaud. Brave things forseek the bold. On with thee! Dare!
  • *1968 , Madhya Pradesh (India), V. S. Krishnan, Madhya Pradesh district gazetteers :
  • The Rani also espoused their cause and marched from Garha to join them. When the astute sultan heard of this, he sent persons to the Rani with a view to inducing her to forseek her design, and thus averted a clash.
  • *1999 , Jeffrey Masten, Wendy Wall, Renaissance Drama 28: New :
  • The play's characters themselves, however, offer a very different estimate: "Forseek all London from one end to t'ther, [...]"
  • *2002 , Luli Gray, Falcon and the Charles Street Witch :
  • "I fear your ardor be so hot That it may but yourself consume, Or passion's flame be unallayed, You will forseek a gallet's tomb. [...]"
  • *2009 , Laurel Amtower, Jacqueline Vanhoutte, A Companion to Chaucer and His Contemporaries: Texts and Contexts :
  • For he is often a drunkard and then he neglects and forseeks his lords' goods and cattle or takes it thievishly and spends it.
  • To weary (someone) with seeking.
  • forsee

    English

    Verb

  • To neglect; overlook; disregard; despise.
  • *1882 , Victor Roy, A Masonic Poem by Harriet Annie Wilkins :
  • Could I forsee the sunken rocks of life?
  • *1841', Gordon, ''History of Scots Affairs, from 1637 - 1641'' (quote from ' 1638 ):
  • The reasone why the Commissioner did so muche presse the reading of the declinator was, because he forsaw that they meant to putt him to a dilemma which still should bring ane inconvenience along with it [...]
  • *
  • It was possible to foresee that the coming winter would be a hard one.
  • To oversee; superintend; direct.
  • References

    *OED 2nd edition 1989 *Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary , Forsee.

    See also

    *foresee