præscience

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præscience (countable and uncountable, plural præsciences)

  1. Archaic spelling of prescience.
    • 1658: Thomas Pierce, Αὐτοκατάκρισις, Or, Self-condemnation: Exemplified in Mr. Whitfield, Mr. Barlee, and Mr. Hickman. With Occasional Reflexions on Mr Calvin, Mr Beza, Mr Zuinglius, Mr Piscator, Mr Rivet, and Mr Rollock: But More Especially on Doctor Twisse, and Master Hobbs; Against Whom, God’s Purity and His Præscience, and His Eternal Decrees According to Præscience […], main title , (J.G. for R. Royston at the Angel in Ivy-lane)
      Αὐτοκατάκρισις, Or, Self-condemnation: Exemplified in Mr. Whitfield, Mr. Barlee, and Mr. Hickman. With Occasional Reflexions on Mr Calvin, Mr Beza, Mr Zuinglius, Mr Piscator, Mr Rivet, and Mr Rollock: But More Especially on Doctor Twisse, and Master Hobbs; Against Whom, God’s Purity and His Præscience, and His Eternal Decrees According to Præscience […]