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单词 presciently
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prescientlyadv.

Brit. /ˈprɛsɪəntli/, U.S. /ˈprɛʃ(i)ən(t)li/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prescient adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < prescient adj. + -ly suffix2. N.E.D. (1908) gives the pronunciation as (prī·ʃiĕntli) /ˈpriːʃɪəntlɪ/.
With prescience.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > [adverb]
foreknowingly1647
prospectively1735
presciently1823
previsionally1836
1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. III. 371 On this memorable day a philosophical politician might have presciently marked the seed-plots of events.
1844 T. De Quincey Greece under Romans in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 536/2 He legislated well and presciently, they imagine, for the interests of a remote posterity.
1893 Times 18 Sept. 2/5 The tower was presciently constructed by Sir C. Wren for the passage of a large bell into what I believe to be the proper resting-place of ‘Great Paul’.
1959 A. F. Wright Buddhism in Chinese Hist. (1965) v. 88 The eleventh-century scholar Ou-yang Hsiu stated more fully and presciently the shape which the revival was to take.
2005 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 21 Nov. a13 ‘The USA,’ Bolivar stated presciently in 1819, ‘appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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