forescent
/ˌfɔː(ɹ)ˈsɛnt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To detect or become aware of (something) in advance.
noun
A scent that indicates something in advance.
Example Sentences
- "birds and wild animals forescent a storm, or an earthquake"
- "[…] the white goose, The saviour of the Roman citadel, Forescents afar the odour of mankind."
- "1872, Henry Norman Hudson, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters, Boston: Ginn & Company, Othello, the Moor of Venice, p. 462, the sagacity with which Iago feels and forescents his way into Roderigo"
- "1915, Frederick Goodyear, letter to F.W. Leith Ross in Letters and Remains: 1887-1917, London: McBride, Nast, 1920, p. 94, Possibly we instinctively forescented the war."
- "an appalling forescent of his own near approaching discomfiture"
- "The patriarchs and prophets inhaled the sweet odour of Christ, Who was preordained to be born and to die in the flesh; yet they did not then give forth the same odour, because they could not exhibit in the flesh Him of Whom they had a fore-scent in the spirit."