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foreknowledge

[ UK /fɔːnˈɒlɪd‍ʒ/ ]
NOUN
  1. knowledge of an event before it occurs

How To Use foreknowledge In A Sentence

  • The perspective is one of both hindsight and foreknowledge, and the predecessor is Hamlet's father.
  • If this exegesis, which takes the verb "foreknow" in the diluted sense of prescience, is not acceptable, what then, we may ask, is the meaning of foreknowledge? Possessing the Treasure
  • [2] Dr. Coplestone, now the Bishop of Llandaff, denies that the foreknowledge of an event proves the _event to be necessary_. On Calvinism
  • He looked dismayed at her foreknowledge of what he had come to say. THE OTHER DEVIL'S NAME
  • Its not controled by a diety that has an actual foreknowledge of coming events. Think Progress » Atomic scientists push back Doomsday Clock because of Obama’s ‘pragmatic’ foreign policy.
  • God's foreknowledge is not the perception of any ground of action out of Himself; still in it liberty is comprehended, and all absolute constraint debarred [Anselm in Steiger]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • By the time Chatton was writing, it was quite common to present a basic fatalist or necessitarian argument to show that God's foreknowledge, which seems deeply connected to his providence, is not consistent with future contingent things and events. Walter Chatton
  • The resulting instability in the economy, particularly on the stock markets, allows anyone with foreknowledge of the rise or fall to exploit that knowledge to make extreme profits.
  • I want the answer to whether divulging the name of a covert CIA operative (whether or not you had foreknowledge that she was covert), as an act of revenge/malice, would in any way influence the granting or maintenance of a high-level (such as codeword) security clearance. 07/11/2005
  • Of or relating to the theology of Jacobus Arminius and his followers, who believed that predestination was conditioned by God's foreknowledge of human free choices.
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