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Foreknowledge vs Foreordain - What's the difference?

foreknowledge | foreordain |

As a noun foreknowledge

is knowing beforehand, prescience, foresight, precognition.

As a verb foreordain is

to predestine or preordain.

foreknowledge

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Knowing beforehand, prescience, foresight, precognition

    • foreordain

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To predestine or preordain.
  • *2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 308:
  • *:God has made the decision before all time, so some are foreordained to be saved through grace – a predestined group of the elect.