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Foreknow

verb
(past foreknew; past part. foreknown; pres. part. foreknowing)
1.
Realize beforehand.  Synonyms: anticipate, foresee, previse.






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"Foreknow" Quotes from Famous Books



... O Allan. Bethink you, have there not been days, aye and months, in your own life when you would have rejoiced to sleep in mindlessness? And should we not, perchance, be happier, all of us, if like the beasts we could not remember, foreknow and understand? Oh! men talk of Heaven, but believe me, the real Heaven is one of dreamless sleep, since life and wakefulness, however high their scale and on whatever star, mean struggle, which being so oft mistaken, must breed sorrow—or remorse ...
— She and Allan • H. Rider Haggard



Words linked to "Foreknow" :   anticipate, previse, know



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