foresight

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FO'RESIGHT, noun 1. Prescience; foreknowledge; prognostication; the act of foreseeing. 2. Provident care of futurity; foreknowledge accompanied with prudence in guarding against evil.
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