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unforeˈseen, ppl. a.
(un-1 8 b. Cf. MDu. onvoresien, Du. onvoorzien; MHG. unvorsên.)
1651Hobbes Leviath. iv. xliv. 334 By reasoning from the un-foreseen mischances. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 821 Through dire change Befalln us unforeseen, unthought of. 1725Berkeley Proposal Wks. 1871 III. 228 Unforeseen difficulties may arise. 1778Earl Carlisle in Jesse Selwyn & Contemp. (1844) III. 302 In case nothing unforeseen happens. 1836W. Irving Astoria III. 132 Unless some unforeseen contingency should render a modification necessary. 1875Whitney Life Lang. vii. 127 The unforeseen consequence of an external addition.
Hence unforeˈseenly adv., -ness.
1853G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas I. 104 A peasant appeared unforeseenly, and offered to carry me across. 1897Daily News 21 Sept. 4/7 The ‘unforeseenness’ of the cycle is its worst reproach in towns. |