Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who foresees or foreknows.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who foresees or foreknows.
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- noun A person who
foresees
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Examples
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I think the empath in Sacha, the foreseer in Faith, the strength of Brenna and Ashaya, the love of Talin and that's just the heroines in your books (at least the ones I read thus far).
Countdown to Branded By Fire: 6 days to go! Nalini Singh 2009
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Feel that which causes you to feel; think upon that which is in forebodings your prophet; in omens, your augur; in the events which befall you, your foreseer.
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Faith Nightstar is an FPsy, a foreseer, who is worth untold millions to the Nightstar clan due to her ability to foresee economic changes in the future.
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Faith Nightstar is an FPsy, a foreseer, who is worth untold millions to the Nightstar clan due to her ability to foresee economic changes in the future.
2007 March 05 | Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary 2007
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Faith Nightstar is an FPsy, a foreseer, who is worth untold millions to the Nightstar clan due to her ability to foresee economic changes in the future.
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"There's something rotten in the State of Iraq," Madame Jane replied, "and I predict that I, the great Madame Jane, foreseer of the Future, predictor of Things to Come ...."
Madame Jane predicts stuff about Iraq: Get 2 fabulous predictions for the price of 1! 2007
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So I'm not trying to be a foreseer of doom, but I do believe that we ought to think not only about the benefits to be derived from this agreement, but we ought to be deeply concerned about the well-being of our nation that will be in danger if we fail.
Remarks By Clinton And Former Presidents On Nafta ITY National Archives 1993
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Among the Romans a poet was called vates, which is as much as a diviner, foreseer, or prophet, as by his conjoined words, vaticinium and vaticinari, is manifest; so heavenly a title did that excellent people bestow upon this heart-ravishing knowledge.
The Defense of Poesy 1909
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Jeremiah the foreseer of a law written on the conscience, are not ancestors of Pharisees who inherit their flesh and name, so much as of kindred spirits who put trust in a righteous God above offerings of blood, who build up free nations by wisdom, who speak truth in simplicity though four hundred priests cry out for falsehood, and who make self-examination before the Searcher of hearts more sacred than the confessional.
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But what about that other renowned foreseer of footballing facts of the future,
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