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foreknowledge

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fore·knowl·edge  (fôr-nlj, fr-, fôrnl-, fr-)
n.
Knowledge or awareness of something before its existence or occurrence; prescience.

foreknowledge
Noun
knowledge of something before it actually happens
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Noun1.foreknowledge - knowledge of an event before it occurs
clairvoyance, E.S.P., ESP, extrasensory perception, second sight - apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses


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Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.
Did some strange gleam of foreknowledge fall for a moment across her mirth-making?
Probably he had that much foreknowledge, knowing his men.
 
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