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usually uncountable, plural presciences
Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge. quotations examples
God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents
1754, Jonathan Edwards, An Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting that Freedom of the Will which is supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency
O thou, who thus the eye hast veil'd,The book of fate so slowly given,I thank thee, that thou hast conceal'dFrom man the prescience of heaven.
1815, Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, On a Sleeping Infant, page 198
With prescience, the Barlows designed them to withstand a third more weight than they would be expected to bear in normal conditions - future proofing the bridge for the weight of trains we see using it today.
2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, in Rail, page 83