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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"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 Henry Drummond
Those who marry are considered to foreknow and to foresee these duties, and to pledge themselves to do the best in their power to discharge them.
From English Secularism A Confession Of Belief by George Jacob Holyoake
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 A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
And besides, he has a laboured argument to prove, that God could not foreknow the future volitions of moral agents, unless he views them as “necessarily connected with something else that is evident.” pp. 115-117.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
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
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
They could not precede them unless we foreknew what the deviations were to be; and we could not afford to entrust the work of guessing to government officials.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
VIII, 29: “Whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son.”
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
Why did he not leave all such uncreated, and call into existence only such as he foreknew would obey his law, and become like himself in purity and bliss?
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
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 Gilbert Cannan
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
It is true Cuchulain's horses weep tears of blood when he goes forth to his last battle, foreknowing his death; but they are immortal steeds and have divine knowledge of fate.
From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Stephen Reid
But the foreknowing Asas knew in advance that he was coming, and resolved to receive him with all sorts of sorcery, which might give him a high opinion of them.
From Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland by Ph.D.
Again, we take no pleasure in foreknowing the fate of wholly uninteresting people; which is as much as to say that character is indispensable to enduring interest in drama.
From Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer
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
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
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
Hence, the volitions infallibly foreknown by God, have an indissoluble connexion with his foreknowledge, and are therefore necessary.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
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