foreknowledge

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Foreknowledge of Japanese intentions helped the U.S. in the battles of Coral Sea and Midway, undoubtedly gaining crucial time for the U.S. to prepare its final blows.

From Time Magazine Archive

In using the term Any Foreknowledge, Farrant, you may be more severe on him than you wish to be.

From Waste A Tragedy, In Four Acts by Granville-Barker, Harley

Foreknowledge to the distance of a year or so in either of them might have spoiled the effect of that pretty speech.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas

He proceeded to consider the series of ancient dilemmas which, I suppose, have presented themselves at some time or another to every reasonable being—Free-will and Predestination; Love and Pain; Foreknowledge and Sin; and their companions.

From None Other Gods by Benson, Robert Hugh

Foreknowledge and Fate are not conterminous and coextensive.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel