Definition of "foreknowing" [foreknowing]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreknow. (verb)

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• "These theorists reject divine timelessness and immutability, along with infallible foreknowledge, arguing that not only should foreknowledge be rejected because of its fatalist consequences, the view of a God who takes risks is more faithful to Scripture than the classical notion of an essentially omniscient and foreknowing deity."
• "But this, thou wilt say, is the very point in dispute — whether any foreknowing is possible of things whose occurrence is not necessary."
• "For that cause belike Alexander discerning this inconvenience and danger that comes by seeing, [5655] when he heard Darius's wife so much commended for her beauty, would scarce admit her to come in his sight, foreknowing belike that of Plutarch, formosam videre periculosissimum, how full of danger it is to see a proper woman, and though he was intemperate in other things, yet in this superbe se gessit, he carried himself bravely."