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 Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Cavins, Elmer W.
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 Holyoake, George Jacob
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
Without this assumption it would be impossible in the Thomistic system to find in the absolute will of God an infallible medium by which He can foreknow future sins.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur
This idea, moreover, accords with the Scriptures:—“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.”
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur
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
For Merlin by his art foreknew that this firstborn should be the long-wished prince, King Arthur.
From King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Unknown
Indeed carnal reason will say that God foreknew what they would do, and so he chose or rejected them.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
“But now, do you believe, Mr Liversedge,—I have picked up the words from this fellow—that God elected men because He foreknew them, or that He foreknew because He had elected them?”
From Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow by Holt, Emily Sarah
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
"It seems that anyone can be foreknowing at certain times," he said, trying to smile.
From The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)
Of some it is said that Odranus, foreknowing the servant of Satan to be intent on the death of the saint, obtained that in his stead he might on that day hold the reins.
From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by O'Leary, James
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)
If they had been foreknowing of that misery, they could not with heedless mind have enjoyed the prosperity of the present life.
From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham
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
"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
Each step of the routine was foreknown: passage, veto, veto upheld.
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
The event which was thus foreknown, must have been, for some cause, certain and fixed, since an uncertain event could not possibly be foreknown.
From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by Hodgson, F. (Francis)
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