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Definition of prescience - 4 dictionary results

pre⋅science

[presh-uhns, -ee-uhns, pree-shuhns, -shee-uhns]
–noun
knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight.

Origin:
1325–75; ME < LL praescientia foreknowledge. See pre-, science


prescient, adjective
pre⋅scient⋅ly, adverb
pre·science   (prěsh'əns, -ē-əns, prē'shəns, -shē-əns)   
n.  Knowledge of actions or events before they occur; foresight.

Prescience

Pre"sci*ence\, n. [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.

prescience 
c.1374, from L.L. præscientia "fore-knowledge," from *præscientem, prp. of *præscire "to know in advance," from L. præ- "before" + scire "to know" (see science).
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