foreknow
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Etymology
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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When they sought for the cause, it was mainly in order to control the effect or if it was uncontrollable, to foreknow and adapt their conduct to it.
From Auguste Comte and Positivism by Mill, John Stuart
For while still dreading your doom, you foreknow it.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
To fling the shirt or shift of a sick person into a spring, was a sure way to foreknow the issue of the malady: if it floated—life; if it sank—death.
From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter
He was a predictor, using his occult gift of second sight to foreknow events and tell The Leader about them.
From The Leader by Dongen, H. R. van
Question at times She made, yet seemed the answer to foreknow.
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey
Those whom God foreknew, GW also predestined to be conformed to the image of God's child .
From Time Magazine Archive
Now his heart foreknew the wrath to come, but he could not take flight, being by Athena bound there.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
In the eleventh chapter Paul shows that God has not forgotten the people whom he foreknew.
From Christ, Christianity and the Bible by Haldeman, Isaac Massey
God did not cast off his people which he foreknew.
From St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition by Gore, Charles
For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son; that he might be the firstborn amongst many brethren.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
The splendor of these visions of energy did not prevent Christophe's seeing their danger, and foreknowing whither this change and the growing clamor of the new Marseillaise would lead.
From Jean-Christophe Journey's End by Cannan, Gilbert
The occult power of foreknowing events, the delicate perception of forbidden things, worked their abnormal invigoration in the brain.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
Sang they: "Unwillingly foreknowing That love with May-time flees, We take this day's bestowing, And feed on fantasies—" 4.
From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by Cabell, James Branch
Wherefore we must consider what is true in the matter of foreknowing the future from dreams.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
I thought that she was kindly sent, In gracious God's foreknowing, To save from fatal detriment, This infant nation growing.
From Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems by Bartley, James Avis
Emergency managers in central Puget Sound understand what is possible and are doing their best to plan for the foreknown consequences of a major earthquake.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
Where groups or individuals analyzed public reactions it was with a thought of their use, of their conscious manipulation to achieve a foreknown effect for the benefit of the group doing the manipulating.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The fortunes of cities, as well as of men," said Plutarch, "have their certain periods of time prefixed, which may be collected and foreknown from the position of the stars."
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet, although the President's reasons were foreknown, his restatement of them in the Coolidge vernacular did not lessen their force as an expression of the point of view for which he stands.
From Time Magazine Archive
Need was there, by austere experiment, To test the frailty and the fall foreknown Of man, beneath o'erwhelming burthen bent?
From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas
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