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  • adverb In a farsighted manner.

Etymologies

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farsighted +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • A memorable event occurred in 1854 when Riemann farsightedly set forth this duality in his renowned

    SPACE SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • They thought -- very cautiously and farsightedly -- of picking us, if it seemed wise.

    Herland 1915

  • The defects of Madison as a War-President he had long foreseen; the need of reorganizing the Executive Departments he had pointed out as soon as war became inevitable; and the problem of financing the war he had attacked farsightedly, fearlessly, and without regard to political consistency.

    Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty Allen Johnson 1900

  • The ideal pecuniary man is like the ideal delinquent in his unscrupulous conversion of goods and persons to his own ends, and in a callous disregard of the feelings and wishes of others and of the remoter effects of his actions; but he is unlike him in possessing a keener sense of status, and in working more consistently and farsightedly to a remoter end.

    The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions 1899

  • They thought -- very cautiously and farsightedly -- of picking us, if it seemed wise.

    Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1897

  • The ideal pecuniary man is like the ideal delinquent in his unscrupulous conversion of goods and persons to his own ends, and in a callous disregard of the feelings and wishes of others and of the remoter effects of his actions; but he is unlike him in possessing a keener sense of status, and in working more consistently and farsightedly to a remoter end.

    Theory of the Leisure Class Thorstein Veblen 1893

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