prescience

noun
/ˈpɹɛsɪ.əns/UK/ˈpɹɛʃəns/US

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English prescience, from Old French prescience, from Latin praescientia.

  1. derived from praescientia
  2. derived from prescience
  3. inherited from prescience

Definitions

  1. Knowledge of events before they take place.

    • God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents
    • O thou, who thus the eye hast veil'd, The book of fate so slowly given, I thank thee, that thou hast conceal'd From man the prescience of heaven.

The neighborhood

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