foreknow
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For while still dreading your doom, you foreknow it.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
"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 Drummond, Henry
Those who marry are considered to foreknow and to foresee these duties, and to pledge themselves to do the best in their power to discharge them.
From English Secularism A Confession Of Belief by Holyoake, George Jacob
Now one makes use of a vain and false opinion if, by observing the stars, one desires to foreknow the future that cannot be forecast by their means.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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 Preuss, Arthur
Those whom God foreknew, GW also predestined to be conformed to the image of God's child .
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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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God did not cast off his people which he foreknew.
From St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. II A Practical Exposition by Gore, Charles
He has indeed not cast them away, whom He foreknew.
From Studies in Zechariah by Gaebelein, Arno C.
His disciples also falsely pretended, that he foreknew and foretold every thing that happened to him.
From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Taylor, Thomas
So, foreknowing the years, and sharply discerning the future, Guessing the riddle of life, and accepting the cruel solution,–– Side by side they sat, as far as the stars are asunder.
From Poems by Howells, William Dean
Prognos′tic, a foreshowing: a foretelling: an indication: a presage.—adj. foreknowing: foreshowing: indicating what is to happen by signs or symptoms.—v.t.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
To talk of foreknowing a contingent event as certain, which may or may not exist, is an absurdity.”
From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by Hodgson, F. (Francis)
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 Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)
Sang they: "Unwillingly foreknowing That love with May-time flees, We take this day's bestowing, And feed on fantasies—" 4.
From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by Cabell, James Branch
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
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.
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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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The force of this reasoning turns upon the connexion between foreknowledge and the events foreknown.
From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip