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foreknow

[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

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

Hath he chosen us because he did foreknow that we would be holy, and without blame, as men think?

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

Question at times She made, yet seemed the answer to foreknow.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere

“Whom He did foreknow He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son.”

From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Elmer W. Cavins

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

For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son; that he might be the firstborn amongst many brethren.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss

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

VIII, 29: “Whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son.”

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss

But she could not speak, or would not, foreknowing what must happen now that had never happened to her before.

From Stradella by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

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

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 speak not, my lord, as wishful of what I say, but simply as foreknowing it.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville

"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

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."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Each step of the routine was foreknown: passage, veto, veto upheld.

From Time Magazine Archive

But lest anyone should imagine that I am asserting things that happen according to the necessity of fate, because I have said that things are foreknown, I proceed to refute that opinion also.

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace


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