foresightful - 12/19/05 09:07 PM
Foresightful is a word but MS Word spell check does not think so.
Any guess as to when did this word fell out of common use?
Any guess as to when did this word fell out of common use?
Re: foresightful - 12/19/05 09:17 PM
welcome shoutgal!
well, it wasn't in the mac OSX dictionary, either, but it shows up readily at OneLook, etc., so I would guess they just couldn't put them all in!
well, it wasn't in the mac OSX dictionary, either, but it shows up readily at OneLook, etc., so I would guess they just couldn't put them all in!
Re: foresightful - 12/19/05 09:33 PM
Hiya shoutgal, and welcome.
The OED has foresight in its sights from 1530:
Haue ther with Consyderacyon Be a forsyght and cleer inspeccyon.
It also charts foresightful from not much later, in Sidney’s Arcadia from 1580:
The foresightfull care he had of his silly successour.
Your question about it not getting much use is harder to answer: it is not marked as dead language, and they quote a New York source for a usage in 1889, so we can assume this authority still recognises it as valid currency.
Like eta said, it’s probably just the constraints of space required so Micro$loth can fit the code in for another animated paperclip or something *really useful of that kind…
fwiw, the similar usage 'insightful' would still be a commonplace.
The OED has foresight in its sights from 1530:
Haue ther with Consyderacyon Be a forsyght and cleer inspeccyon.
It also charts foresightful from not much later, in Sidney’s Arcadia from 1580:
The foresightfull care he had of his silly successour.
Your question about it not getting much use is harder to answer: it is not marked as dead language, and they quote a New York source for a usage in 1889, so we can assume this authority still recognises it as valid currency.
Like eta said, it’s probably just the constraints of space required so Micro$loth can fit the code in for another animated paperclip or something *really useful of that kind…
fwiw, the similar usage 'insightful' would still be a commonplace.
Re: foresightful - 12/19/05 11:43 PM
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Any guess as to when did this word fell out of common use?
define common!
it seems to be pretty common, at least as economics, social science, psychology, and futurology cant. I particularly like this usage: It might be small enough that both foresightful and insightful probabilities would have led to the same conclusion.
Re: foresightful - 12/20/05 10:02 AM
If it's fallen out of common use it's because for many the long term is nothing but a series of short terms.