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Webster 1828 Edition


Unforeknown

UNFOREKNOWN

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Adj.
Not previously known or foreseen.

Definition 2024


unforeknown

unforeknown

English

Adjective

unforeknown (not comparable)

  1. Not known in advance.
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
      Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, / Which had no less proved certain unforeknown.
    • 1912, May Sinclair, The Three Bront:
      And, no doubt, it was destiny of a sort, unforeknown, deceitful, apparently malignant, that sent Charlotte back again to Brussels after her aunt's death.