foreknowledge en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From fore- + knowledge.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) Knowing beforehand. ▸ Knowing beforehand via natural or ordinary means.
[H]e [Paul] laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge; […]
1684, John Bunyan, A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity: Or, An Exhortation to Christians to be Holy, London: […] B. W. for Benj[amin] Alsop, […], →OCLC, page 3:But two bottles would alarm and confuse him, would lead to a conversation, so I smashed it merrily into a skip, buzzed and lit with the comforting foreknowledge of the second one on its way.
2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN:The mule knows the hidden pitfalls of the morass; the swallow feels the storm ere it comes upon the air, and wings to the quiet shelter of its nest—they foresee their dangers, and avoid them; while we blindly rush forward into the depths of the pit and the fury of the tempest; for we know not what evils await us. No kind foreknowledge gives us even the choice of avoidance.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 125:The prosecution intends to prove that the defendant had foreknowledge.
- (uncountable, usually) Knowing beforehand. ▸ Knowing beforehand via supernatural or paranormal means.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| foreknowledges | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
Synonyms
prescience · foresight · clairvoyance · psychicness · premonition · precognition · prophecy · divination
Translations (15)
bg предвиждане (knowing beforehand) · hu előre tudás (knowing beforehand) · de Vorauswissen (knowing beforehand) · de Voraussicht (knowing beforehand) · tr önbilgi (knowing beforehand) · wyi ngargoonin twarn (knowing beforehand) · nl voorkennis (knowing beforehand) · es prenoción (knowing beforehand) · fi ennakkotieto (knowing beforehand) · kl siumut ilisimassuseq (knowing beforehand) · de Vorwissen (knowing beforehand) · hu előzetes tudás/ismeret (knowing beforehand) · grc πρόγνωσις (knowing beforehand) · ca prenoció (knowing beforehand) · fr prénotion (knowing beforehand)