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Foreknowing

Foreknow \Fore*know"\, v. t. [imp. Foreknew; p. p. Foreknown; p. pr. & vb. n. Foreknowing.] To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.

Who would the miseries of man foreknow?
--Dryden.

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foreknowing

vb. (present participle of foreknow English)

Usage examples of "foreknowing".

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

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?