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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Wise planning for the future; prescience; foreknowledge.

2. (n.) Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.

3. (n.) Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction.

4. (n.) Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a.

Greek

4307. pronoia -- foresight, forethought
... foresight, forethought. Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: pronoia
Phonetic Spelling: (pron'-oy-ah) Short Definition: forethought, foresight ...
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Library

Whether Foresight* Should be Accounted a Part of Prudence? ...
... OF EACH QUASI-INTEGRAL PART OF PRUDENCE (EIGHT ARTICLES) Whether foresight*
should be accounted a part of prudence? [*"Providentia ...
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Anxious Care
... Therefore I say unto you. Take no thought for your life.'"Matthew 6:24-25.
Foresight and foreboding are two very different things. ...
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Whether Three Parts of Prudence are Fittingly Assigned?
... Tully (De Invent. Rhet. ii, 53) assigns three parts of prudence, namely, "memory,"
"understanding" and "foresight." Macrobius (In Somn. Scip. ...
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God's Providence
... His purpose. The Latin etymology of the word Providence is from (Providentia,
Pro-videre), and originally meant foresight. The corresponding ...
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But that we May not Seem, Because of a Hebrew Word...
... Is it with any foresight of the future or not? If with a foresight of the
future, then the prophets were divinely inspired; if with ...
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Whether we Should be Solicitous About the Future?
... But prudence is chiefly about the future, since its principal part is "foresight
of future things," as stated above ([2829]Q[49], A[6], ad 1). Therefore it is ...
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Whether Circumspection Can be a Part of Prudence?
... Now foresight enables a man to look on distant things. Therefore there is no need
to account circumspection a part of prudence in addition to foresight. ...
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Whether Caution Should be Reckoned a Part of Prudence?
... Now it belongs to foresight to foresee good, and consequently, also to avoid
evil. Therefore caution should not be accounted a part ...
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'That which was Lost'
... An animal has no foresight, and is the happier because it cannot look before and
after. It has only a rudimentary conscience, if it has that. ...
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That it is not Easy to Discover the Trinity that is God from the ...
... And yet it is not foresight, but memory, that enables us to foresee it; for up to
the very end of the words or the song, nothing is uttered except as foreseen ...
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Thesaurus

Foresight (2 Occurrences)
... forward direction. 4. (n.) Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a.
Multi-Version Concordance Foresight (2 Occurrences). Acts 2 ...
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Providence (3 Occurrences)
... Literally means foresight, but is generally used to denote God's preserving and
governing all things by means of second causes (Psalm 18:35; 63:8; Acts 17:28 ...
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Weather (5 Occurrences)
... 25:20). Jesus rebukes the Pharisees for their lack of spiritual foresight
when they took such interest in natural foresight. He ...
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Foreknow (1 Occurrence)
... It is a term used in theology to denote the prescience or foresight of God, that
is, His knowledge of the entire course of events which are future from the ...
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Foreknowledge (2 Occurrences)
... It is a term used in theology to denote the prescience or foresight of God, that
is, His knowledge of the entire course of events which are future from the ...
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Plagues (28 Occurrences)
... In every instance these predictions were exactly fulfilled. In some instances careful
foresight might seem to supply in part this ability to predict. ...
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Foreskin (12 Occurrences)

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Unseen (18 Occurrences)
... Acts 2:31 with prophetic foresight he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, to
the effect that He was not left forsaken in the Unseen World, nor did His ...
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Undergo (91 Occurrences)
... Acts 2:31 with prophetic foresight he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, to
the effect that He was not left forsaken in the Unseen World, nor did His ...
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Foresee (1 Occurrence)
... foreseeable future. 2. (vt) To provide. 3. (vi) To have or exercise foresight.
Multi-Version Concordance Foresee (1 Occurrence). Isaiah ...
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Bible Concordance

Foresight (2 Occurrences)

Acts 2:31 with prophetic foresight he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, to the effect that He was not left forsaken in the Unseen World, nor did His body undergo decay.
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Acts 24:2 and he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse 'him', saying, 'Much peace enjoying through thee, and worthy deeds being done to this nation through thy forethought,
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Foreskin (12 Occurrences)

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Undergo (91 Occurrences)

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