单词 | unprescient |
释义 | unprescientadj. Not prescient; not having or arising from foreknowledge. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > provident foresight, prudence > [adjective] > not unprescient1794 1794 R. Jephson Rom. Portraits 115 O, how unprescient of this dire disgrace, Was the gay tumult of their last embrace! 1866 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lost Tales Miletus 15 Having heard all with not unprescient fears. 1874 G. H. Lewes Probl. Life & Mind I. 229 A blind impulse unprescient of means and end. 1912 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Raid of Guerilla 21 All unprescient of the day's impending event, she had come to the forge. 1994 New Eng. Rev. 16 55 From the vantage-point of his relatively early death her remarks seem unprescient. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1794 |
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