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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They could not hope to outdo Shakespeare and foreknow their respective Hamlets; they must slowly make their Hamlets' acquaintance by living with them.
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
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 Arthur Preuss
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
“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 Elmer W. Cavins
"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 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 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
And if God does know, the man cannot but choose as God foreknew he would choose, and what becomes of his freedom?
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
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
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
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
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
But this, thou wilt say, is the very point in dispute—whether any foreknowing is possible of things whose occurrence is not necessary.
From The Consolation of Philosophy by H. R. (Henry Rosher) James
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
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
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
But lest anyone should imagine that I am asserting things that happen according to the necessity of fate, because I have said that things are foreknown, I proceed to refute that opinion also.
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
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