Meanings
verb
- participlepastpast participle of foreknow
adjectiveforeknown (comparative more foreknown, superlative most foreknown)
comparative more foreknown · superlative most foreknown
- anticipated or predicted
My truths are all foreknown, This anguish self-revealed. I’m naked to the bone, With nakedness my shield.
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
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