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(transitive) To perceive, ken, or realise ahead of time; foreknow; preconceive..
This before all elevates humankind above the beasts: we alone foreken our mortality. We alone know we must die.
But Mr. Marcy, with that foreken which distinguishes statesmen from politicians, saw the coming time when the Pacific Coast population would emerge out of its transient humors, when it would feel the settled purposes of permanent [...]
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Foreken means (transitive) To perceive, ken, or realise ahead of time; foreknow; preconceive..
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This before all elevates humankind above the beasts: we alone foreken our mortality. We alone know we must die.
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