"forelove" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From fore- + love.",
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          "ref": "2009, Greg Ogden, Discipleship Essentials",
          "text": "To foreknow is to “forelove.” For a reason known only to God he bestows his love on some.",
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          "ref": "2012, Ron Craig, Are Christians Just Saved Sinners? - Page 125",
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          "text": "[...] that these people never had covenantal relations with him; the Good Shepherd did not know them as his sheep, and they did not know him (John 10:14). Thus, to foreknow is to forelove.",
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        "To love beforehand or in advance."
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          "beforehand",
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        "(transitive) To love beforehand or in advance."
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        "(transitive) To love beforehand or in advance."
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