foreknow

Verb

Meaning

To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

anticipate foresee previse see look divine assume expect predict gather perceive imagine scent forecast discern
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Antonyms

know mistake exuberant misinterpret misconceive misconstrue
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Hypernyms

know

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Derivatives

foreknew foreknown foreknowing

Examples

It is characteristic of the most entire sincerity to be able to foreknow. When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens. Confucius

He gave this and the Prophecies of the Old Testament, not to gratify mens curiosities by enabling them to foreknow things, but that after they were fulfilled they might be interpreted by the event, and his own Providence, not the Interpreters, be then manifested thereby to the world. Isaac Newton

Close letter words and terms

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