Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who foreknows.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who foreknows.
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- noun One who
foreknows .
Etymologies
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foreknow + -er
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Examples
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And thou, O prophetess most holy, foreknower of the future, grant (for no unearned realm does my destiny claim) a resting-place in Latium to the Teucrians, to their wandering gods and the storm-tossed deities of Troy.
The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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'Thou art told of as foreknower of the fates and as the godlike dream sending oracles both by day and night.'
The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura Lucius Apuleius 1914
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(1f) There is (and was before now) an essentially omniscient foreknower (EOF) [Assumption for dilemma] (1f) and the Principle of the Necessity of the Past tells us that
Foreknowledge and Free Will Zagzebski, Linda 2008
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