foreknow

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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

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

“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

Without this assumption it would be impossible in the Thomistic system to find in the absolute will of God an infallible medium by which He can foreknow future sins.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur

"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate."

From Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others by Pringle, Allen