foreknow
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- foreknowable adjective
- foreknower noun
- foreknowingly adverb
- foreknowledge noun
- unforeknowable adjective
- unforeknown adjective
Etymology
Origin of foreknow
First recorded in 1400–50, foreknow is from the late Middle English word foreknowen. See fore-, know 1
Example Sentences
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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
Now his heart foreknew the wrath to come, but he could not take flight, being by Athena bound there.
From Literature
Who gave him an imperfect nature—a nature of which it was foreknown it would fall!
From Project Gutenberg
Then and there he foreknew and foreordained all human tears.
From Project Gutenberg
His image was all the more pale and ineffectual now because, foreknowing them well, he had not mastered them.
From Project Gutenberg
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