previsage

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verb

To envisage in advance; to foresee.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person previsages · participle present previsaging · participle past previsaged · past previsaged

  1. transitiveTo envisage in advance; to foresee.

    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
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    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
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previsage. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/previsage

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “previsage,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/previsage.

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