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foreknow

[fawr-noh, fohr-] / fɔrˈnoʊ, foʊr- /






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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 A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

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 Arthur Preuss

God kept us both in so great a dependence on His orders, that He did not let us foreknow them; but the divine moment of His providence determined everything.

From The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

For as it belongs to his wisdom to foreknow all future events, so it belongs to his power to rule and govern them by his hand.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

In short, if one can foreknow what a comparison will reveal, telepathy before the comparison is unproven.

From The Leader by H. R. van Dongen

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

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 G. W. (George William) Foote

He has indeed not cast them away, whom He foreknew.

From Studies in Zechariah by Arno C. Gaebelein

His foreknowledge did not cause this to happen, but he foreknew it because it would happen.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

Many a time of late Has he, by some strange gift of foreknowing, Declared his fate was hovering in such wise!

From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy

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

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

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 Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric

"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 Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien

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

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

"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

Listen! e'en in this paradise there works A mighty power of evil, conjured there By acts of foreknown consequence.

From Eidolon, or The Course of a Soul And Other Poems by Walter Richard Cassels




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