forewish

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ wish.

Verb

forewish (third-person singular simple present forewishes, present participle forewishing, simple past and past participle forewished)

1. (transitive) To wish or desire beforehand.
   • 1955, William White Craik, Bryn Roberts and the National Union of Public Employees:

     Events were soon to prove false those predictions of catastrophe, predictions of a fate that was forewished rather than foreseen.

   • 1989, Léon Baudry, The quarrel over future contingents (Louvain, 1465-1475)::

     […] as in a contest one has with an enemy, by desiring he forewishes a victory still distant from him by an intervening time.