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foreknow

[fawr-noh, fohr-] / fɔrˈnoʊ, foʊr- /






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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

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 Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)

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 Defoe, Daniel

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

For while still dreading your doom, you foreknow it.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

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

For the Divine Mind which planned the Archetypal also foreknew all its modifications.

From The Plurality of Worlds by Hitchcock, Edward

“For whom he foreknew, them he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.”

From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by Hodgson, F. (Francis)

Infinite cruelty rather that made everlasting Hell, Made us, foreknew us, foredoomed us, and does what he will with his own; Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan!

From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)

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 Morley, Henry

From this he drew the rash conclusion that his daughter had become a misfortune to him, as some foreknowing woman had once said she would.

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

If they had been foreknowing of that misery, they could not with heedless mind have enjoyed the prosperity of the present life.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

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 Cabell, James Branch

"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 Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)

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

Each step of the routine was foreknown: passage, veto, veto upheld.

From Time Magazine Archive

"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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, what is this certainty in things themselves, or in human volitions, without which they are incapable of being foreknown?

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor




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