foreknown
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foreknown
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foreknown (comparative more foreknown, superlative most foreknown)
- 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.