pronoia🔊

(philosophy, theology) Divine providence, foreknowledge, foresight.

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Now Providence (which the Greekes call Pronoia) is an intellectuall knowledge, both fore-seeing, caring for, and ordering all things, and doth not onely behold all past, all present, and all to come, but is the cause of their so being, which Prescience (simply taken) is not: and therefore Providence by the Philosophers (saith S. Augustine) is divided into Memory, Knowledge, and Care: […]

Walter Raleigh, The History of the World

(historical, Byzantine Empire) An imperial grant to an individual of temporary fiscal rights in the form of land, incomes or taxes from land, fishing rights, etc., sometimes carrying with it an obligation of military service.

(psychology) A belief (sometimes regarded as irrational) that people conspire to do one good.

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