英和和英

語源

From fore- +‎ approval.

名詞

fore-approval (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 fore-approvals)

1. Approval granted beforehand or in advance.
   • 1866, George Wyard, Devout and explanatory reflections on important portions of God's Word:

     The word "foreknow" in the text is significant of fore-approval, fore-delight, fore-love, approbation, and choice.

   • 1874, Edward Hayes Plumptre, The Bible educator, ed. by E.H. Plumptre:

     The "foreknowledge" spoken of is evidently a fore-approval; it denotes the resting of the mind of God beforehand upon the person with complacency and love.

   • 1876, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick, The Southern Review:

     Is it not evident, that his fore-approval, or election, of some to sonship upon earth merely, is a very different thing from his fore-approval, or election, of others to eternal sonship in heaven ?

   • 1985, Witness Lee, Life-Study of 1 Peter: Messages 1-18:

     Hallelujah, God's foreknowledge includes foreapproval, fore-appreciation, foreacknowledgement, foremarrying, and foreordination! Christ was foreknown before the foundation of the world.