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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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 Fisk, Wilbur
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 Holyoake, George Jacob
"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 Drummond, Henry
To fling the shirt or shift of a sick person into a spring, was a sure way to foreknow the issue of the malady: if it floated—life; if it sank—death.
From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.”
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert
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 hath not rejected his people whom he foreknew.
From A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek by Haweis, T.
His disciples also falsely pretended, that he foreknew and foretold every thing that happened to him.
From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Taylor, Thomas
Subsequently, sitting with His disciples over against the temple, He showed how well He foreknew the terrible fate which hung over the capital of His country, and how poignantly He felt it.
From The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion by Stalker, James
Sang they: "Unwillingly foreknowing That love with May-time flees, We take this day's bestowing, And feed on fantasies—" IV.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)
I recall but one stanza:— "Oft have I walked these woodland ways, Without the blest foreknowing, That underneath the withered leaves The fairest flowers were blowing."
From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by Burroughs, John
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
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 Melville, Herman
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 Archer, William
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
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
"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
Each step of the routine was foreknown: passage, veto, veto upheld.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the proposition that a volition is certainly and infallibly foreknown, it follows, by a necessity of consequence, that it will come to pass.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
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