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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“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 Charles Ebert Orr
Here the prophecy was a long time ahead, and foretold the exact coming of a ball depending on a combination of circumstances which would seem impossible for reason or intuition to foresee and foreknow.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
For while still dreading your doom, you foreknow it.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
“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
Yet how foreknow and dread in one breath, unless with this divine seeming power of prescience, you blend the actual slimy powerlessness of defense?
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
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
But we affirm that, if God foreknew it, this volition would certainly and without fail occur in this very Judas….
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente
And God foreknew that He would do these things.
From On Prayer and The Contemplative Life by Hugh Pope
For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son; that he might be the firstborn amongst many brethren.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
Love, o’er palms in triumph strown Passing, through the crowd alone,— Silent ’mid the exulting cry,— At Jerusalem to die: Thou, foreknowing all, didst know How Thy blood in vain would flow!
From The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History by Henry Morley
She did other things besides foreknowing the fall of storms, for she took James Sandieson when in a strange distemper and tormented him greatly.
From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
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
Wherefore we must consider what is true in the matter of foreknowing the future from dreams.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
But she could not speak, or would not, foreknowing what must happen now that had never happened to her before.
From Stradella by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
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
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 this only amounts to the certainty of divine foreknowledge, and proves nothing as to the nature of the existence foreknown.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
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