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forethoughtful, a.|fɔəˈθɔːtfʊl|
[f. forethought n. + -ful.]
Full of or having forethought; thoughtful for the future, provident.
1809–10Coleridge Friend (1818) III. 205 The ‘prudens quæstio’ (the forethoughtful query). 1853Lytton Harold x. vi. (ed. 3) 240 That it is which, free and fore-thoughtful [ed. 1 (1848) prethoughtful] of every chance, ye should now decide. 1876G. Meredith Beauch. Career II. iii. 48 Neither of them had a forethoughtful head for the land at large.
Hence foreˈthoughtfully adv.; foreˈthoughtfulness.
1647J. Trapp Comm. Matt. vi. 34 Let us..not, by too much fore-thoughtfulnesse,..suffer fained or future evils before they seize upon us. 1874Dykes Relat. Kingdom 71 That moral forethoughtfulness by which existence is both sustained and adorned. 1891G. Meredith One of our Conq. III. v. 84 He made his way forethoughtfully to the glass-sheltered seats. |