foreknown

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

foreknown

  1. past participle of foreknow

Adjective[edit]

foreknown (comparative more foreknown, superlative most foreknown)

  1. anticipated or predicted
    • 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Open House”, in Open House; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975, →ISBN, page 3:
      My truths are all foreknown,
      This anguish self-revealed.
      I’m naked to the bone,
      With nakedness my shield.