prescience

Definition

Knowledge of events before they take place.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English prescience, from Old French prescience, from Latin praescientia.

Example Sentences

• "God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents"
• "O thou, who thus the eye hast veil'd, The book of fate so slowly given, I thank thee, that thou hast conceal'd From man the prescience of heaven."
• "Near-synonym: forethought"

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