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foreknowingly

foreknowingly adverb: with foreknowledge; knowing beforehand.

Adverb

foreknowingly (comparative more foreknowingly, superlative most foreknowingly)

  1. With foreknowledge; knowing beforehand.
    • He who […] foreknowingly loses his life1646, Jeremy Taylor, A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying

Forms of foreknowingly

comparativemore foreknowingly
superlativemost foreknowingly

Origin of foreknowingly

From foreknowing + -ly.

Questions about foreknowingly

What does foreknowingly mean?
Foreknowingly means with foreknowledge; knowing beforehand.
What part of speech is foreknowingly?
Foreknowingly is an adverb.

Words near foreknowingly in the dictionary

  1. foreknow
  2. foreknowable
  3. foreknower
  4. foreknowers
  5. foreknowing
  6. foreknowingly
  7. foreknowings
  8. foreknowledge
  9. foreknowledges
  10. foreknown
  11. foreknows

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