foreknow
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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- 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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Who gave him an imperfect nature—a nature of which it was foreknown it would fall!
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Then and there he foreknew and foreordained all human tears.
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His image was all the more pale and ineffectual now because, foreknowing them well, he had not mastered them.
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But after ourselves moving in such an environment it is marvelous to ponder that any creatures prefer it, and good to foreknow that our own world will swim out into a splendid frosty weather.
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The argument runs thus: all acts of the Will, however remote in the distant future, are foreknown to God.
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