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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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
If, indeed, it was necessary for God to decree an event, in order to foreknow it, this inference might be just.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
See also Rom. viii, 29, “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son,” and “whom he did predestinate —he called—justified—and sanctified.”
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
He was a predictor, using his occult gift of second sight to foreknow events and tell The Leader about them.
From The Leader by H. R. van Dongen
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
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 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 Arthur Preuss
His foreknowledge did not cause this to happen, but he foreknew it because it would happen.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
He has indeed not cast them away, whom He foreknew.
From Studies in Zechariah by Arno C. Gaebelein
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 James Avis Bartley
"Skroppa herself could not be foreknowing about him!"
From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz
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 Herman Melville
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 James O'Leary
She did other things besides foreknowing the fall of storms, for she took James Sandieson when in a strange distemper and tormented him greatly.
From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
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
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
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
Fortune smiled on our banners that morning; for indeed, had we foreknown our enemies’ movements and timed our coming to the minute, it could not have better fallen out.
From Cedric, the Forester by Bernard Gay Marshall
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