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Did he, like the old hero Njal, "gentle and generous," foreknow his end as he chose out this quiet, beautiful spot?

From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Katharine Lee Bates

But men by natural inclination seek to foreknow future events; and this belongs to divination.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Guardian, Giver, and Guide; If she may not foreknow, forejudge and foresee, What safety has childhood beside?

From The Crux by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

See also Rom. viii, 29, “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son,” and “whom he did predestinate —he called—justified—and sanctified.”

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk

Thou that by Set turns and changes from Thy high And glorious throne dost here below Rule all, and all things dost foreknow!

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers

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

It was believed among us charlatans that he considered that he foreknew what The Leader would do to prevent war at this time.

From The Leader by H. R. van Dongen

Even before my own had time to blink I foreknew that never, in time or in eternity, should I be able to make Philippa accept thoroughly my explanation.

From In Mr. Knox's Country by Martin Ross

Indeed carnal reason will say that God foreknew what they would do, and so he chose or rejected them.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

Sang they: "Unwillingly foreknowing That love with May-time flees, We take this day's bestowing, And feed on fantasies—" 4.

From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by James Branch Cabell

My guardian spirit follows me in that shape; a foreknowing woman told me so.

From The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz

It is true Cuchulain's horses weep tears of blood when he goes forth to his last battle, foreknowing his death; but they are immortal steeds and have divine knowledge of fate.

From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Stephen Reid

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

"Unwillingly foreknowing That love with May-time flees, We take this day's bestowing, And feed on fantasies Such as love lends for ease Where none but travaileth, With lean infrequent fees, Until released by death_."

From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by James Branch Cabell

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

"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

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

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 Albert Taylor Bledsoe