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[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 Arthur Preuss

“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 The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr

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 Sir Walter Scott

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

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 E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers

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

It is true God foreknew that some would not believe on his Son and be redeemed, and he foreknew that others would.

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr

For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2God hath not rejected his people whom he foreknew.

From A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek by T. Haweis

“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 F. (Francis) Hodgson

"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

Again, we take no pleasure in foreknowing the fate of wholly uninteresting people; which is as much as to say that character is indispensable to enduring interest in drama.

From Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer

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

Oft have I walked these woodland paths, Without the blessed foreknowing That underneath the withered leaves The fairest buds were growing.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

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

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

Where groups or individuals analyzed public reactions it was with a thought of their use, of their conscious manipulation to achieve a foreknown effect for the benefit of the group doing the manipulating.

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

To transpose a set of lines of two physical wires each, is not complicated, though it must be done with care and in accordance with a definite, foreknown plan.

From Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by Samuel McMeen


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