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Webster 1913 Edition

Prescience

Pre′sci-ence

(prē′shĭ-ens or prē′shens; 277)
,
Noun.
[F.
prescience
, L.
praescientia
. See
Prescient
.]
Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.
God’s certain
prescience
of the volitions of moral agents.
J. Edwards.

Webster 1828 Edition

Prescience

PRESCIENCE

,
Noun.
presi'ence or pre'shens. [Low L. proescientia; proe, before, and scientia, knowledge.] Foreknowledge; knowledge of events before they take place. Absolute prescience belongs to God only.
Of things of the most accidental and mutable nature, God's prescience is certain.

Definition 2024

prescience

prescience

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Noun

prescience ‎(plural presciences)

  1. Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.
    God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. (Jonathan Edwards)

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From French prescience, from Latin praescientia.

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