foreknow
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"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
Here the prophecy was a long time ahead, and foretold the exact coming of a ball depending on a combination of circumstances which would seem impossible for reason or intuition to foresee and foreknow.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
If, indeed, it was necessary for God to decree an event, in order to foreknow it, this inference might be just.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
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
As one in nerves, and pulse, and spirits bad, Who of some frequent fever waits the blow, E'en so I felt—for how could I foreknow Such near end of the half-joys I have had?
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell
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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It was believed among us charlatans that he considered that he foreknew what The Leader would do to prevent war at this time.
From The Leader by H. R. van Dongen
If man is bound to act as God foreknew he would act, divine knowledge is saved, man's freedom lost.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
Then and there he foreknew and foreordained all human tears.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll
"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
My guardian spirit follows me in that shape; a foreknowing woman told me so.
From The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz
But the foreknowing Asas knew in advance that he was coming, and resolved to receive him with all sorts of sorcery, which might give him a high opinion of them.
From Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland by Ph.D.
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
From this he drew the rash conclusion that his daughter had become a misfortune to him, as some foreknowing woman had once said she would.
From The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz
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
"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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Each step of the routine was foreknown: passage, veto, veto upheld.
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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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Could we have foreknown the history of its first couple of years, there would have been no federation in our time.
From Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge