prescience

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English

Alternative forms

præscience (archaic)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French prescience, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin praescientia.

Pronunciation

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Noun

prescience (usually uncountable, plural presciences)

Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.
- Jonathan Edwards
  God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents

Translations

Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge

Chinese:
Cantonese: 先見之明／先见之明 (zin¹ gin³ zi¹ ming⁴)
Danish: klarsyn n
Finnish: etukäteis tieto
French: prescience (fr)
Galician: presciencia f
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Italian: preveggenza f
Norwegian: klarsyn n, framsyn
Portuguese: presciência (pt) f
Russian: предви́дение (ru) n (predvídenije)
Spanish: presciencia (es) f

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