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Definition of Foreknowledge
1. Noun. Knowledge of an event before it occurs.
Generic synonyms: Clairvoyance, E.s.p., Esp, Extrasensory Perception, Second Sight
Definition of Foreknowledge
1. n. Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.
Definition of Foreknowledge
1. Noun. Knowing beforehand, prescience, foresight, precognition ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Foreknowledge
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foreknowledge
Literary usage of Foreknowledge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards (1844)
"The chief Arminian divines, so far as I have had opportunity to observe, deny
this consequence ; and affirm, that if such foreknowledge be allowed, ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Goodwin, D.D. by Thomas Goodwin (1864)
"And therefore election, or foreknowledge of them, is as the canse joined with
their being his: 2 Tim. ii. 19, 'The Lord knows who are his. ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"There are various theories of foreknowledge, (a) It is viewed simply as one of
... foreknowledge is no more of a mystery upon this view than any knowledge, ..."
4. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1907)
"foreknowledge implies fixity, and fixity implies decree. ... foreknowledge Is
not of possible events, but of what is certain to be. ..."
5. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Alexander James William Morrison (1851)
"III. sect. ip 142143. t As, for example, that God s election of individuals and
calling of nations was conditioned on his foreknowledge of the way in which ..."
6. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1841)
"is his foreknowledge, I shall evidently derive, that all actions whatsoever,
whether they proceed from the will or from fortune, were necessary from ..."
7. Paradoxes of Free Will by Gunther Siegmund Stent (2002)
"Divine foreknowledge. Augustine addressed also another paradox inherent in the
free will concept, which is entailed by the all but universal belief, ..."
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