foreknow
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He was a predictor, using his occult gift of second sight to foreknow events and tell The Leader about them.
From The Leader by Dongen, H. R. van
"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
For as it belongs to his wisdom to foreknow all future events, so it belongs to his power to rule and govern them by his hand.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
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 Binning, Hugh
Yet how foreknow and dread in one breath, unless with this divine seeming power of prescience, you blend the actual slimy powerlessness of defense?
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
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 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
They could not precede them unless we foreknew what the deviations were to be; and we could not afford to entrust the work of guessing to government officials.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur
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 Ingersoll, Robert Green
Again, we take no pleasure in foreknowing the fate of wholly uninteresting people; which is as much as to say that character is indispensable to enduring interest in drama.
From Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship by Archer, William
Wherefore we must consider what is true in the matter of foreknowing the future from dreams.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
"Skroppa herself could not be foreknowing about him!"
From The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest by Liljencrantz, Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina)
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
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)
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
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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each step of the routine was foreknown: passage, veto, veto upheld.
From Time Magazine Archive
Who gave him an imperfect nature—a nature of which it was foreknown it would fall!
From Life and Character of Richard Carlile by Holyoake, George Jacob
