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Foreknow

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To have foreknowledge of, especially by supernatural means or through revelation.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To have knowledge of beforehand, to precognise.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To have previous knowledge of; know beforehand; think of or contemplate beforehand.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. realize beforehand

Word Usage

"And let it be noticed further that if Paul had here used the term "foreknow" in the sense that election was based on mere foreknowledge, it would have contradicted his statement elsewhere that it is according to the good pleasure of God."

Verb Form

foreknew foreknowing foreknown foreknows

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

know

Variant

foreknown foreknew

Form

foreknew foreknown foreknowing

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

foresee precognize