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foreknow

[ fawr-noh, fohr- ]

verb (used with object)

foreknew, foreknown, foreknowing.
  1. to know beforehand.

    Synonyms: , , ,



foreknow

/ ɔːˈəʊ /

verb

  1. tr to know in advance
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ڴǰˈԴǷɾԲ, adverb
  • ڴǰˈԴǷɲ, adjective
  • ڴǰˈԴǷɱ岵, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ڴǰ·ԴǷa· adjective
  • ڴǰ·ԴǷİ noun
  • ڴǰ·ԴǷiԲ· adverb
  • unڴǰ·ԴǷa· adjective
  • ܲЭǰ·ԴǷɲ adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of foreknow1

First recorded in 1400–50, foreknow is from the late Middle English word foreknowen. See fore-, know 1
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Example Sentences

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Emergency managers in central Puget Sound understand what is possible and are doing their best to plan for the foreknown consequences of a major earthquake.

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Now his heart foreknew the wrath to come, but he could not take flight, being by Athena bound there.

Who gave him an imperfect nature—a nature of which it was foreknown it would fall!

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Then and there he foreknew and foreordained all human tears.

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His image was all the more pale and ineffectual now because, foreknowing them well, he had not mastered them.

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