"foreapprove" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From fore- + approve.",
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          "ref": "1897, Elijah Hansbrough, Writings",
          "text": "To foreknow is to foreapprove, or approved before on account of obedience to his will, hence Paul says, \"God hath not cast away his people whom he foreknew.",
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          "ref": "1958, Boyce W. Blackwelder, Light from the Greek New Testament",
          "text": "God purposed from eternity that those whom he foreapproved should be conformed to the image of his Son.",
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          "ref": "1984, Spiros Zodhiates, The Hebrew-Greek Key Study Bible",
          "text": "Distinct meanings: (1) To know before, whether a person (Acts 26:5), or a thing (II Pet. 3:17). (2) To foreknow with approbation, to foreapprove or make a previous choice of, as a peculiar people (Amos 32, ginoskō in the Septuagint; I Pet. […])",
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          "ref": "2005, Dr. C. Matthew McMahon, The Two Wills of God",
          "text": "[It is used] to foreapprove or to make a previous choice of (Romans 8:29). To foreknow is to foreordain as they are logically coordinate terms.",
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        "To approve beforehand."
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          "beforehand",
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  "etymology_text": "From fore- + approve.",
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          "ref": "1897, Elijah Hansbrough, Writings",
          "text": "To foreknow is to foreapprove, or approved before on account of obedience to his will, hence Paul says, \"God hath not cast away his people whom he foreknew.",
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        },
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        "To approve beforehand."
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