foreknown
English
Verb
foreknown
- past participle of foreknow
Adjective
foreknown (comparative more foreknown, superlative most foreknown)
- 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.