forewish
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]forewish (third-person singular simple present forewishes, present participle forewishing, simple past and past participle forewished)
- (transitive) To wish or desire beforehand.
- 1955, William White Craik, Bryn Roberts and the National Union of Public Employees:
- Events were soon to prove false those predictions of catastrophe, predictions of a fate that was forewished rather than foreseen.
- 1989, Léon Baudry, The quarrel over future contingents (Louvain, 1465-1475)::
- […] as in a contest one has with an enemy, by desiring he forewishes a victory still distant from him by an intervening time.