foreknowledge
/fawr-nol-ij, fohr-, fawr-nol-ij, fohr-/US // ˈfɔrˌnɒl ɪdʒ, ˈfoʊr-, fɔrˈnɒl ɪdʒ, foʊr- //
预知,预知性,预见性,预知能力
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n.名词 noun
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- : knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
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Examples
On Chiara's pale face and in his eyes was the shadow of his own foreknowledge.
I do not pretend to determine the controverted point of predestination, the foreknowledge and decrees of Providence.
Closely connected with these were predestination and grace, and then "fixed fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute."
It is even sought to reconcile the antinomy of freedom vs. God's foreknowledge.
We do not know of a real instance in which a man's decision tended to be contrary to God's foreknowledge of its outcome.
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