单词 | foreknowledge |
释义 | foreknowledgen. Knowledge of an event, etc. before it exists or happens; prescience. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > [noun] foreshowinga1050 foreknowingc1374 foreseeingc1374 fore-wit1377 before-knowingc1384 presciencec1384 fore-wittingc1386 presciencec1395 foresight14.. previdence?a1425 prevision?a1425 prenostication?a1450 precognitiona1500 before-witting1532 foreknowledge1535 fore-fetch1554 presciency1572 fore-wisdom1576 prenotion1588 presension1597 prospecta1616 presensation1653 prospiciency1681 prevoyance1767 onsight1838 preview1855 precog1954 the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > knowledge or omniscience > types of presciencec1384 foreknowledge1535 ideality1701 co-consciousness1903 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judith ix. 6 Thy iudgmentes are done in thy euerlastinge fore knowlege. 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Contents sig. biij The foreknowleage that the poet Seneca had of the fyndynge of the newe worlde. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 118 If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. View more context for this quotation 1729 Bp. J. Butler Serm. in Wks. (1874) II. Pref. 19 It is not foreknowledge of the punishment which renders us obnoxious to it. 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. xi. 139 Money lent with the foreknowledge that the borrower will be unable to repay it. 1863 E. Dicey Six Months in Federal States II. 210 [An astrologer promises to] give to the public a fore-knowledge of all the general affairs through life. DerivativesΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > [adjective] > foreseen or foreknown foreseen1532 foreknown1550 foreknowledged1577 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. iv. sig. Eee.vv/2 Thou arte..foreknowledged, as they say, to damnation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1535 |
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