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foreguess

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From Middle English foregessen, equivalent to fore- + guess.

verb foreguesses · foreguessing · foreguessed

  1. transitive To guess beforehand. The rest—Rannach and Tekah, Yazte and Kahteney, Arcole—waited on him, on his response. He was, no matter his protestations, the Prophet, and they hesitated to foreguess him.
  2. transitive To forecast.
  3. transitive To anticipate; expect.
  4. transitive To conjecture; assume. " [...] He will be welcome there I foreguess; for every northman is either or Warwick or for Lancaster; and the two must unite now, I trow."

noun foreguesses

  1. A conjecture; an assumption. […] the idea – to put it in chemical language – that an allotropic form of gold may be discovered, so far from being an outcome of superstitious ignorance, was a foreguess of genius, which has led to brilliant and momentous discoveries, of which we are nearer to the cradle than to the maturity.

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@misc{foreguess_2026,
  title = {foreguess},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/foreguess},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}