Unforeseen

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8 b. Cf. MDu. onvoresien, Du. onvoorzien; MHG. unvorsên.)

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1651. Hobbes, Leviath., IV. xliv. 334. By reasoning from the un-foreseen mischances.

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1667. Milton, P. L., II. 821. Through dire change Befalln us unforeseen, unthought of.

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1725. Berkeley, Proposal, Wks. 1871, III. 228. Unforeseen difficulties may arise.

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1778. Earl Carlisle, in Jesse, Selwyn & Contemp. (1844), III. 302. In case nothing unforeseen happens.

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1836. W. Irving, Astoria, III. 132. Unless some unforeseen contingency should render a modification necessary.

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1875. Whitney, Life Lang., vii. 127. The unforeseen consequence of an external addition.

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Hence Unforeseenly adv., -ness.

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1853. G. J. Cayley, Las Alforjas, I. 104. A peasant appeared unforeseenly, and offered to carry me across.

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1897. Daily News, 21 Sept., 4/7. The ‘unforeseenness’ of the cycle is its worst reproach in towns.

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