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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As one in nerves, and pulse, and spirits bad, Who of some frequent fever waits the blow, E'en so I felt—for how could I foreknow Such near end of the half-joys I have had?
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
But men by natural inclination seek to foreknow future events; and this belongs to divination.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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
Did he, like the old hero Njal, "gentle and generous," foreknow his end as he chose out this quiet, beautiful spot?
From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Bates, Katharine Lee
Thou that by Set turns and changes from Thy high And glorious throne dost here below Rule all, and all things dost foreknow!
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)
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
To illustrate this point:—I know that I act; and hence, I conclude that God foreknew that I would act.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2God did not cast away his people whom he foreknew.
From The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union. by American Bible Union
It was believed among us charlatans that he considered that he foreknew what The Leader would do to prevent war at this time.
From The Leader by Dongen, H. R. van
Bid my destiny Yield to thy power the dark and hidden end, And let me fall foreknowing.
From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan
His image was all the more pale and ineffectual now because, foreknowing them well, he had not mastered them.
From The Truants by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)
I speak not, my lord, as wishful of what I say, but simply as foreknowing it.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman
But she could not speak, or would not, foreknowing what must happen now that had never happened to her before.
From Stradella by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
Sang they: "Unwillingly foreknowing That love with May-time flees, We take this day's bestowing, And feed on fantasies—" IV.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
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
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
Each step of the routine was foreknown: passage, veto, veto upheld.
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
For all future events will certainly and infallibly come to pass, whether they are foreknown or not; and foreknowledge cannot make the matter any more certain than it is without it.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
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