foreknowledge — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. Knowing beforehand. Knowing beforehand via natural or ordinary means.

   Uso

   • non numerabile
   • usually

   Esempi

   The prosecution intends to prove that the defendant had foreknowledge.

   Altri esempi (3)

   [H]e [Paul] laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge; […]

   The mule knows the hidden pitfalls of the morass; the swallow feels the storm ere it comes upon the air, and wings to the quiet shelter of its nest—they foresee their dangers, and avoid them; while we blindly rush forward into the depths of the pit and the fury of the tempest; for we know not what evils await us. No kind foreknowledge gives us even the choice of avoidance.

   But two bottles would alarm and confuse him, would lead to a conversation, so I smashed it merrily into a skip, buzzed and lit with the comforting foreknowledge of the second one on its way.

2. Knowing beforehand. Knowing beforehand via supernatural or paranormal means.

   Uso

   • non numerabile
   • usually

   Sinonimi

   precognitionforesightprescienceclairvoyancepremonitiondivinationprophecypsychicness

Sostantivo

1. knowledge of an event before it occurs

   Sinonimi

   precognition

   Termini più generali

   clairvoyancesecond sightextrasensory perceptionE.S.P.ESP