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Meanings of
foreknow
in English
Spanish
saber de antemano
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Realize beforehand.
anticipate
foresee
previse
Spanish
saber de antemano
Usage of
foreknow
in English
1
Harm will not come to you, but a good you cannot
foreknow
.
2
It is characteristic of the most entire sincerity to be able to
foreknow
.
3
How doth God
foreknow
that these uncertain things shall be?
4
But men by natural inclination seek to
foreknow
future events; and this belongs to divination.
5
His petition was not granted, for God has ordained that no man shall
foreknow
his end.
6
In short, if one can
foreknow
what a comparison will reveal, telepathy before the comparison is unproven.
7
And he was sure that the woman whose coming little Denise had seemed to
foreknow
,
would understand.
8
The consequences of even our simple acts are oftentimes far-reaching and beyond the power of human wisdom to
foreknow
.
9
They, too, will
foreknow
what things shall happen, and in what month and on what day or in what night.
10
He was a predictor, using his occult gift of second sight to
foreknow
events and tell The Leader about them.
11
And should we not, perchance, be happier, all of us, if like the beasts we could not remember,
foreknow
and understand?
12
But God could not
foreknow
,
say some, how a free moral agent would act, unless he had first determined how he should act!
13
Dei xi, 15), that "He alone could discern light and darkness, Who also could
foreknow
,
before they fell, those who would fall."
14
The fact that God
foreknows
a thing makes that thing certain but not necessary.
15
He caused her a spasm of anguish,
foreknowing
him doomed.
16
Had I
foreknown
his death, as you suggest, I would have bespoke my mourning.
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foreknow
Verb
Frequent collocations
foreknow events
foreknow future
foreknow what things
Translations for
foreknow
Spanish
saber de antemano
prevenir
preveer
anticipar
Foreknow
through the time