foreknow
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"Whom He did foreknow He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son."
From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond
Her impatience was proportionable to the love she had for them, and which made her wish to foreknow all the happiness that was like to attend them.
From The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; by Daniel Defoe
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
And besides, he has a laboured argument to prove, that God could not foreknow the future volitions of moral agents, unless he views them as “necessarily connected with something else that is evident.” pp. 115-117.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Hath he chosen us because he did foreknow that we would be holy, and without blame, as men think?
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
Those whom God foreknew, GW also predestined to be conformed to the image of God's child .
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Now his heart foreknew the wrath to come, but he could not take flight, being by Athena bound there.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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To illustrate this point:—I know that I act; and hence, I conclude that God foreknew that I would act.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Why did he not leave all such uncreated, and call into existence only such as he foreknew would obey his law, and become like himself in purity and bliss?
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Then and there he foreknew and foreordained all human tears.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
His image was all the more pale and ineffectual now because, foreknowing them well, he had not mastered them.
From The Truants by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
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
"It seems that anyone can be foreknowing at certain times," he said, trying to smile.
From The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz
Sang they: "Unwillingly foreknowing That love with May-time flees, We take this day's bestowing, And feed on fantasies—" IV.
From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
I recall but one stanza:— "Oft have I walked these woodland ways, Without the blest foreknowing, That underneath the withered leaves The fairest flowers were blowing."
From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by John Burroughs
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."
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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.
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Each step of the routine was foreknown: passage, veto, veto upheld.
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She could take no part in public meetings or conferences, save those of which the business was foreknown to her.
From Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Jacob Holyoake