foreknow

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

From The Crux by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

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 Bates, Katharine Lee

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 Binning, Hugh

My spirits faint, while I these ills foreknow, And find myself the sad occasion too.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Thomas, Aquinas, Saint