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predestined

[ US /ˌpɹiˈdɛstənd/ ]
[ UK /pɹɪdˈɛstɪnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. 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 predestined In A Sentence

  • God might have predestined us to suffer from such a condition,’ he said.
  • All the machinery was ready, the platform laid; the facilities, the wires and bells and trumpets, the roaring, deafening newspaperism of the period -- its most distinctive sign -- were waiting for her, their predestined mistress, to press her foot on the spring and set them all in motion. The Tragic Muse
  • They believed that kings were predestined to rule.
  • Few people would attain their predestined ending could they see it in advance.
  • The late Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine has demonstrated that creativity in nature leads, through infinite bifurcations or decision points, to an unforetold plurality of possibilities, not a predestined fate for man or molecule.
  • Perhaps that is what we call yen fen (predestined romance); they started dating each other soon afterward, and tied the knot after six months. My Sinchew -
  • For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. Recovering From Religious Abuse
  • But you are not predestined to repeat your father's mistakes.
  • They went astray from the predestined path thus destructing the overall wholeness of the planet.
  • John Calvin's faith offers predestined salvation for a lucky few and requires adherents to work hard and shun ostentation.
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