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English
Etymology
From fore- + knowledge.
Pronunciation
Noun
foreknowledge (usually uncountable, plural foreknowledges)
- Knowing beforehand; foresight, precognition, prescience.
1684, John Bunyan, A Holy Life, the Beauty of Christianity: Or, An Exhortation to Christians to be Holy, London: B. W. for Benj Alsop, , →OCLC, page 3:e laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge;
1834, L E L, chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. In Three Volumes.">…], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 125: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.
2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN: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.
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