foreknown

English

Verb

foreknown

1. past participle of foreknow

Adjective

foreknown (comparative more foreknown, superlative most foreknown)

1. anticipated or predicted
   • 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Open House”, in Open House, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, London: Faber and Faber […], 1968, →OCLC, page 3:

     My truths are all foreknown,
     This anguish self-revealed.
     I’m naked to the bone,
     With nakedness my shield.

Derived terms

• unforeknown