foreknown

English

Verb

foreknown

1. past participle of foreknow

Adjective

foreknown (comparative more foreknown, superlative most foreknown)

1. anticipated or predicted
   • 1941, Theodore Roethke, “Open House”, in Open House; republished in The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, 1975, →ISBN, page 3:

     My truths are all foreknown,
     This anguish self-revealed.
     I’m naked to the bone,
     With nakedness my shield.