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foreknowledge
[ fawr-nol-ij, fohr-, fawr-nol-ij, fohr- ]
noun
- knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience:
Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
Synonyms: foresightedness, premonition, presentiment
Word History and Origins
Origin of foreknowledge1
Example Sentences
On Chiara's pale face and in his eyes was the shadow of his own foreknowledge.
I do not pretend to determine the controverted point of predestination, the foreknowledge and decrees of Providence.
Closely connected with these were predestination and grace, and then "fixed fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute."
It is even sought to reconcile the antinomy of freedom vs. God's foreknowledge.
We do not know of a real instance in which a man's decision tended to be contrary to God's foreknowledge of its outcome.
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