predestination

See also: prédestination

English

WOTD – 29 January 2016

Etymology

From Middle English predestinacion, from Old French predestination, from Late Latin praedēstinātiō. Displaced native Old English foreteohhung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹi.dɛs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: pre‧des‧ti‧na‧tion

Noun

predestination (countable and uncountable, plural predestinations)

1. (theology) The doctrine that everything has been foreordained by God or by fate.
2. (Calvinism, specifically) The doctrine that certain people have been elected for salvation, and sometimes also that others are destined for reprobation.
3. Destiny or fate.

Related terms

• determinism
• predestinational

Translations

religious doctrine

• Armenian: նախասահմանում (hy) (naxasahmanum), նախասահմանություն (hy) (naxasahmanutʻyun)
• Asturian: predestinación f
• Bulgarian: предопределение (bg) n (predopredelenie)
• Catalan: predestinació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 宿命论 (zh) (sùmìnglùn)

• Czech: předurčení n
• Danish: prædestination c, forudbestemmelse c
• Dutch: voorbestemdheid f, predestinatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: sortdifino
• French: prédestination (fr) f
• Galician: predestinación (gl) f
• German: Prädestination (de) f, Vorherbestimmung (de) f
• Greek: προορισμός (el) m (proorismós)
• Korean: 예정(豫定) (ko) (yejeong)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: predestinasjon m, forutbestemmelse m

  Nynorsk: predestinasjon m, forutbestemming f

• Old English: foreteohhung f
• Ottoman Turkish: تقدیر (takdir)
• Persian: تقدیر (fa) (taqdir)
• Polish: predestynacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: predestinação (pt) f
• Russian: предопределе́ние (ru) n (predopredelénije), предназначе́ние (ru) n (prednaznačénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: предодређење n

  Latin: predodređenje n

• Spanish: predestinación f
• Swedish: predestination (sv) c, förutbestämmelse c
• Ukrainian: напередвизначення n (naperedvyznačennja)
• Welsh: rhagarfaeth f

destiny or fate

• Bulgarian: орис (bg) f (oris)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 前定 (zh) (qiándìng)

• Old English: foreteohhung
• Polish: predestynacja (pl) f
• Russian: предназначение (ru) n (prednaznačenije)

Old French

Noun

predestination oblique singular, f (oblique plural predestinations, nominative singular predestination, nominative plural predestinations)

1. predestination (doctrine that everything has been foreordained by God)

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praedestinatio.

Noun

predestination c

1. predestination

Declension

Declension of predestination
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	predestination	predestinationen	—	—
Genitive	predestinations	predestinationens	—	—

Related terms

• predestinera

Further reading

• predestination in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker