foredoom

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ doom. Compare foredeem.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːduːm/ (noun), IPA^(key): /fɔːˈduːm/ (verb)

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Noun

foredoom (uncountable)

1. A doom that is predicted; destiny.

Hypernyms

• doom

Translations

A doom that is predicted

• Bulgarian: орис (bg) f (oris)
• Dutch: noodlot (nl), fataliteit (nl)
• French: destin (fr) m, fatalité (fr) f

Verb

foredoom (third-person singular simple present foredooms, present participle foredooming, simple past and past participle foredoomed)

1. (transitive) To predestine to a doom.
   • 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state.

   • 1903 April 18, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., →OCLC:

     [W]hen to the inherent difficulties of so delicate and nice a social operation were added the spite and hate of conflict, the hell of war; when suspicion and cruelty were rife, and gaunt Hunger wept beside Bereavement,—in such a case, the work of any instrument of social regeneration was in large part foredoomed to failure.

   • 1906 August, Henry James, “Baltimore”, in The American Scene, London: Chapman and Hall, published 30 January 1907, →OCLC, section II, page 312:

     [O]ne feels that no community can really be as purged of peccant humours as the typical American has for the most part found itself foredoomed to look.

   • 1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Chessmen of Mars‎^[1], The Gutenberg Project, published 2010:

     To search for Tara of Helium in the vast, dim labyrinth of the pits of O-Tar seemed to the Gatholian a hopeless quest, foredoomed to failure.

   • 1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, The Folio Society, published 2010, page 35:

     They appeared, upon the surface, to possess all the qualities which were likely to recommend them to the fashionable society of the day; but their mission was foredoomed to failure.

Related terms

• foredeem

Translations

to predestine a doom

• Bulgarian: обричам (bg) (obričam)
• Dutch: op voorhand veroordelen
• French: condamner à l’avance