foreknow
Example Sentences
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In short, if one can foreknow what a comparison will reveal, telepathy before the comparison is unproven.
From The Leader by Dongen, H. R. van
Guardian, Giver, and Guide; If she may not foreknow, forejudge and foresee, What safety has childhood beside?
From The Crux by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
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
As one in nerves, and pulse, and spirits bad, Who of some frequent fever waits the blow, E'en so I felt—for how could I foreknow Such near end of the half-joys I have had?
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
He was a predictor, using his occult gift of second sight to foreknow events and tell The Leader about them.
From The Leader by Dongen, H. R. van
