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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God kept us both in so great a dependence on His orders, that He did not let us foreknow them; but the divine moment of His providence determined everything.
From The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte
For while still dreading your doom, you foreknow it.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
"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
But after ourselves moving in such an environment it is marvelous to ponder that any creatures prefer it, and good to foreknow that our own world will swim out into a splendid frosty weather.
From Minstrel Weather by Storm, Marian
"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate."
From Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others by Pringle, Allen
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