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previsage

previsage verb: to envisage in advance; to foresee.

Verb

previsage (third-person singular simple present previsages, present participle previsaging, simple past and past participle previsaged)

  1. (transitive) To envisage in advance; to foresee.
    • Characteristically I previsage events or sequences of events that I believe will happen. When I do so, I represent these events to myself, and I represent them as, or more or less as, I believe that they will be.1986, Richard Wollheim, The Thread of Life, page 262
    • Naturally, we cannot previsage our own deaths, though we can previsage a process of dying.2020, James Bernard Murphy, Your Whole Life: Beyond Childhood and Adulthood, page 157

Forms of previsage

third-person singular presentprevisages
present participleprevisaging
past participleprevisaged
pastprevisaged

Questions about previsage

What does previsage mean?
Previsage means to envisage in advance; to foresee.
What part of speech is previsage?
Previsage is a verb.
What is the past tense of previsage?
The past tense of previsage is previsaged.

Words near previsage in the dictionary

  1. previrialization
  2. previrialized
  3. previrion
  4. previrions
  5. previs
  6. previsage
  7. previsaged
  8. previsages
  9. previsaging
  10. previse
  11. prevised

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