foreknowledge

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Foreknowledge of Japanese intentions helped the U.S. in the battles of Coral Sea and Midway, undoubtedly gaining crucial time for the U.S. to prepare its final blows.

From Time Magazine Archive

Foreknowledge is an effect, not of something that is going to occur, which would be absurd, but the effect of its being going to occur.

From The Fiend's Delight by Bierce, Ambrose

Foreknowledge thus acquired, however, was confined to particular persons, and such favoured dreamers enjoyed a reputation little inferior to that of the inspired priests.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir

Foreknowledge, on the contrary, has no causality in relation to events foreknown.

From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip

Foreknowledge is simply God's antecedent knowledge of all events, which some hold to be entirely separable from his foreordination, while others hold foreordination to be inseparably involved in foreknowledge.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin