"foreguess" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1996, Angus Wells, Exile's Challenge:",
          "text": "The rest—Rannach and Tekah, Yazte and Kahteney, Arcole—waited on him, on his response. He was, no matter his protestations, the Prophet, and they hesitated to foreguess him.",
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        "To guess beforehand."
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        "(transitive) To guess beforehand."
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        "To forecast."
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        "(transitive) To forecast."
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      "glosses": [
        "To anticipate; expect."
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        "(transitive) To anticipate; expect."
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          "ref": "1886, Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, The Last of the barons:",
          "text": "\" [...] He will be welcome there I foreguess; for every northman is either or Warwick or for Lancaster; and the two must unite now, I trow.\"",
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        "To conjecture; assume."
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          "Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary",
          "w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909"
        ],
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          "G. & C. Merriam",
          "w:Merriam-Webster"
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        "(transitive) To conjecture; assume."
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          "text": "[…] the idea – to put it in chemical language – that an allotropic form of gold may be discovered, so far from being an outcome of superstitious ignorance, was a foreguess of genius, which has led to brilliant and momentous discoveries, of which we are nearer to the cradle than to the maturity.",
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        "To guess beforehand."
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        "(transitive) To guess beforehand."
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        "(transitive) To forecast."
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        "To anticipate; expect."
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        "(transitive) To anticipate; expect."
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        "(transitive) To conjecture; assume."
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