foreken

verb, noun — 2 senses

verb

Etymology From fore- + ken.

To perceive, ken, or realise ahead of time; foreknow; preconceive.

This before all elevates humankind above the beasts: we alone foreken our mortality. We alone know we must die.2003, Steven Pressfield, Last of the Amazons:

noun

Etymology From fore- + ken.

Readiness for or anticipation of a perception; foreknowledge; preconception.

But Mr. Marcy, with that foreken which distinguishes statesmen from politicians, saw the coming time when the Pacific Coast population would emerge out of its transient humors, when it would feel the settled purposes of permanent [...]1892, Edward Elbridge Salisbury, Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury, Family histories and genealogies:

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