What is "foreknow"

Usage examples of "foreknow".

I had foreknown, thou couldst not forebear to save a poor weakling, beset by human wolves.

God then concluded all those in unbelief, both Jews and Gentiles, whom He foreknew and predestinated to be comformed to the image of His Son, in order that they might be confounded by the bitterness of unbelief, and might repent and believingly turn to the sweetness of God’s mercy, and might take up that exclamation of the psalm, "How great is the abundance of Thy sweetness, O Lord, which Thou hast hidden for them that fear Thee, but hast perfected to them that hope," not in themselves, but "in Thee.

For the punishment foreknown, if not great enough to deterre men from the action, is an invitement to it: because when men compare the benefit of their Injustice, with the harm of their punishment, by necessity of Nature they choose that which appeareth best for themselves: and therefore when they are punished more than the Law had formerly determined, or more than others were punished for the same Crime.

But he felt dutybound to admit his suspicions, even foreknowing the sharp stare and demand for explanations it would cause.

For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren.

While foreknowing in a future ruler was an undoubted advantage, what if it presaged the first blossoming of a wizard's gifts?

His strange bouts of foreknowing seemed to have passed, and with Lhel's help he'd reached some accord with Brother.

Raen's heart beat painfully, foreknowing in this prepared show something meant to hurt her.

And foreknowing the answer, called, to Dancer's pattern: {Are you there?

Had that been the terrible foreknowing that lay beneath the last words they had spoken in the darkness of Orvilla?

Doubtless it was this,-that if all future things have been foreknown, they will happen in the order in which they have been foreknown.

And further, if it is not true that all things happen just as they have been foreknown by Him, there is not, says he, in God any foreknowledge of future events.

Psyche bleated once, and he saw the horror of foreknown death in her eyes.

And the great grim prison on the asteroid, as he had foreknown, brought him no escape from those angrily and incredulously demanding voices.

He tried to think what reason the Ila might have for not needing to know about Pori, and all he could think of was that the Ila had foreknown there was no use in their mission there.