foreknow
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Origin of foreknow
First recorded in 1400–50, foreknow is from the late Middle English word foreknowen. See fore-, know 1
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For as it belongs to his wisdom to foreknow all future events, so it belongs to his power to rule and govern them by his hand.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
Happy minds that can redeem Their engagements how they please, That no joys or hopes esteem Half so precious as their ease: Wisdom should prepare men so, As if they did all foreknow.
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
"Whom He did foreknow He also did predestinate to be conformed to the Image of His Son."
From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry
"Whom He did foreknow He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son."
From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry
Yet how foreknow and dread in one breath, unless with this divine seeming power of prescience, you blend the actual slimy powerlessness of defense?
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
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