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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It is readily conceded, that, in the order of nature, the Divine Being could not foreknow that a world would certainly exist, until he had determined to create it.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
Guardian, Giver, and Guide; If she may not foreknow, forejudge and foresee, What safety has childhood beside?
From The Crux by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Happy minds that can redeem Their engagements how they please, That no joys or hopes esteem Half so precious as their ease: Wisdom should prepare men so, As if they did all foreknow.
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
In short, if one can foreknow what a comparison will reveal, telepathy before the comparison is unproven.
From The Leader by H. R. van Dongen
Question at times She made, yet seemed the answer to foreknow.
From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere
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
If man is bound to act as God foreknew he would act, divine knowledge is saved, man's freedom lost.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
Why did he not leave all such uncreated, and call into existence only such as he foreknew would obey his law, and become like himself in purity and bliss?
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
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
"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
My guardian spirit follows me in that shape; a foreknowing woman told me so.
From The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz
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
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
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
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
"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
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
Could we have foreknown the history of its first couple of years, there would have been no federation in our time.
From Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge
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