foreknow
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"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate."
From Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others by Allen Pringle
To fling the shirt or shift of a sick person into a spring, was a sure way to foreknow the issue of the malady: if it floated—life; if it sank—death.
From A Month in Yorkshire by Walter White
"Whom He did foreknow He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son."
From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond
For while still dreading your doom, you foreknow it.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
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
Those whom God foreknew, GW also predestined to be conformed to the image of God's child .
From Time Magazine Archive
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Now his heart foreknew the wrath to come, but he could not take flight, being by Athena bound there.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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“But now, do you believe, Mr Liversedge,—I have picked up the words from this fellow—that God elected men because He foreknew them, or that He foreknew because He had elected them?”
From Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow by Emily Sarah Holt
Yes, he did, and signified that he had several things to predict to me concerning people, that he foreknew would come to me the week following to ask me questions.
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 Daniel Defoe
For Merlin by his art foreknew that this firstborn should be the long-wished prince, King Arthur.
From King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Unknown
"Skroppa herself could not be foreknowing about him!"
From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz
Of some it is said that Odranus, foreknowing the servant of Satan to be intent on the death of the saint, obtained that in his stead he might on that day hold the reins.
From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary
I recall but one stanza:— "Oft have I walked these woodland ways, Without the blest foreknowing, That underneath the withered leaves The fairest flowers were blowing."
From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by John Burroughs
Bid my destiny Yield to thy power the dark and hidden end, And let me fall foreknowing.
From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan
She did other things besides foreknowing the fall of storms, for she took James Sandieson when in a strange distemper and tormented him greatly.
From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
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
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"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."
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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.
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Of their own will they went out; of their own will they fell; and because their fall was foreknown, they were not predestined.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss