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unforeˈseeing, ppl. a.
(un-1 10, 5 d.)
1602Daniel Cleopatra i. F iiij, My vnforeseeing weakenesse must intoome My Countries fame and glory with my fall. 1690Child Disc. Trade Pref. A 7 b, May we not think that some..People in the World may be as un-foreseeing as this Gentleman pretends to be? 1755Man No. 4. 3 An indulgent but unforeseeing parent. 1801Southey Thalaba iv. xv, Later years..teach me to regret Youth's unforeseeing indolence. 1886Swinburne Misc. 130 The unforeseeing security of a charmed and confident happiness.
absol.1855Singleton Virgil I. 94 Ne'er storm of rain Hath to the unforeseeing scathful proved.
b. Const. with object.
1871M. Collins Marq. & Merch. II. iv. 112 Amy, unforeseeing anything of this sort, had been doing what she thought was her duty.
Hence unforeˈseeingly adv.
1611Florio, Improuistamente, vnprouidedly, suddainely, vnforeseeingly. 1832Chalmers Pol. Econ. iii. 96 This sum..might have been imprudently or unforeseeingly vested in the manufacture of luxuries. |