ADJECTIVE
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established or prearranged unalterably
it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world
a sense of predestinate inevitability about it
his place in history was foreordained
How To Use foreordained In A Sentence
- It was foreordained that the company would suffer a spectacular collapse.
- God, whose plan is ineffable, foreordained that the heart of Jesus would be stricken with seven afflictions.
- They also devote entire semester courses to classes designed to teach strategies by which to manipulate public outreach in order arriver at foreordained conclusions. Sound Politics: A modest proposal for transportation budgeting
- What I minded was the thought of an hour's vain wading in that roaring stream, whipping it with fly after fly, while R., the foreordained fisherman, was sitting comfortably in a sawmill, and derricking that pair of three-quarter-pounders in through the window! Fishing with a Worm
- We believe that the Bible teaches that God foreordained many things: to anoint Jesus as the Christ, to save the world through Jesus, to work with the Jews rather than some other group of people, to send Paul as a missionary, and so on.
- They were not coeternal with him, yet they were foreknown, foreseen, and foreordained by him.
- See especially Rom. 3: 25; and note the marginal rendering -- "foreordained" -- making the passage read: "Whom God hath foreordained to be a propitiation. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
- There was technically a habeas petition but the outcome was foreordained. The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy
- If something is foreordained, rather than foreknown, then I do think the issue of responsibility exists. It Is Written: LOST and Slumdog Millionaire, Peter and Judas, Ben and John
- It was foreordained that the company would suffer a spectacular collapse.