foreknowingly

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English

Etymology

From foreknowing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

foreknowingly (comparative more foreknowingly, superlative most foreknowingly)

  1. With foreknowledge; knowing beforehand.
    • 1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying:
      He who [] foreknowingly loses his life

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