Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not predicted or foretold.

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  • adjective Not foretold; unforeseen

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un- +‎ foretold

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Examples

  • It is not accidental, it is not something unforetold, it is something we could have avoided and it cannot be excused -- given the blood and treasure we have spent in the name of making it not happen.

    Rick Tumlinson: The End of the Shuttle: The Real Reason We Send People Into Space Rick Tumlinson 2011

  • It is not accidental, it is not something unforetold, it is something we could have avoided and it cannot be excused -- given the blood and treasure we have spent in the name of making it not happen.

    Rick Tumlinson: The End of the Shuttle: The Real Reason We Send People Into Space Rick Tumlinson 2011

  • The future it foresees with nuclear medicine and video tape, in which “a program can be recorded and played back at any time, immediately, if desired without any laboratory processing,” became a part of our lives a generation ago, and in which we have already traveled beyond that future miracle to a then-unforetold digital world.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2009

  • The future it foresees with nuclear medicine and video tape, in which “a program can be recorded and played back at any time, immediately, if desired without any laboratory processing,” became a part of our lives a generation ago, and in which we have already traveled beyond that future miracle to a then-unforetold digital world.

    The Future is Now - 1955 Jacqueline T Lynch 2009

  • What is promised one day, foretold, is unforetold the next, with no more wrenching reflection than a bee moving from one blossom to another.

    Church Going Hardwick, Elizabeth 1988

  • They were in evil case, but they would have been all right, these men, if the cold had not come down upon them, a bolt quite literally from the blue of a clear sky: unexpected, unforetold and fatal.

    The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

  • '_I_ know how these unforetold misfortunes happen.

    The Magic City 1891

  • The resources of God are inexhaustible; and in the evolution of his prearranged ages it may be that there will arise upon the earth a race of beings of unforetold majesty, who shall disinter the remnant bones and ponder the wrecked monuments of forgotten man as we do those of the disgusting reptiles of the Saurian epoch.

    The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

  • But this I may state in a sentence, that the greatest, probably the most prosperous, manufacturing industry that this country or the world has ever seen, has been suddenly and unexpectedly stricken down, but by a blow which had not been unforeseen or unforetold.

    Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 John Bright 1850

  • It is not accidental, it is not something unforetold, it is something we could have avoided and it cannot be excused -- given the blood and treasure we have spent in the name of making it not happen.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Rick Tumlinson 2011

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