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English
Etymology
From Middle English foregessen, equivalent to fore- + guess.
Verb
foreguess (third-person singular simple present foreguesses, present participle foreguessing, simple past and past participle foreguessed)
- (transitive) To guess beforehand.
1996, Angus Wells, Exile's Challenge:The rest—Rannach and Tekah, Yazte and Kahteney, Arcole—waited on him, on his response. He was, no matter his protestations, the Prophet, and they hesitated to foreguess him.
- (transitive) To forecast.
- (transitive) To anticipate; expect.
- (transitive) To conjecture; assume.
1886, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, The Last of the barons:" [...] He will be welcome there I foreguess; for every northman is either or Warwick or for Lancaster; and the two must unite now, I trow."
Derived terms
Noun
foreguess (plural foreguesses)
- A conjecture; an assumption.
1887, The Scottish review:[…] the idea – to put it in chemical language – that an allotropic form of gold may be discovered, so far from being an outcome of superstitious ignorance, was a foreguess of genius, which has led to brilliant and momentous discoveries, of which we are nearer to the cradle than to the maturity.
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