Definition of foresight

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Foresight (n.) Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction..

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Contingently :: Contingently (adv.) In a contingent manner; without design or foresight; accidentally.
Suppose :: Suppose (v. t.) To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight..
Improvidence :: Improvidence (n.) The quality of being improvident; want of foresight or thrift.
Unexpectation :: Unexpectation (n.) Absence of expectation; want of foresight.
Backsight :: Backsight (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3..
Foresight :: Foresight (n.) The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
Outsee :: Outsee (v. t.) To see beyond; to excel in cer/ainty of seeing; to surpass in foresight.
Providence :: Providence (n.) Foresight; care; especially, the foresight and care which God manifests for his creatures; hence, God himself, regarded as exercising a constant wise prescience..
Presciently :: Presciently (adv.) With prescience or foresight.
Prospect :: Prospect (v.) The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation; as, a prospect of the future state..
Prospection :: Prospection (n.) The act of looking forward, or of providing for future wants; foresight..
Prescience :: Prescience (n.) Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
Forewit :: Forewit (n.) Foresight; prudence.
Foresight :: Foresight (n.) Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.
Prevision :: Prevision (n.) Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience.
Foresightful :: Foresightful (a.) Foresighted.
Long-sighted :: Long-sighted (a.) Able to see objects at a great distance; hence, having great foresight; sagacious; farseeing..
Farseeing :: Farseeing (a.) Having foresight as regards the future.
Foresight :: Foresight (n.) Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a..
Prejudice :: Prejudice (n.) Foresight.
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