predestination

English

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Etymology

Middle English, from Old French predestination, from Late Latin praedestinatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɹi.dɛs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃen/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

predestination (uncountable)

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

Related terms

• determinism

Translations

religious doctrine

• Asturian: predestinación (ast) f
• Catalan: predestinació (ca) f
• Czech: předurčení (cs) n
• Dutch: predestinatie (nl) f
• French: prédestination (fr) f
• Galician: predestinación (gl) f
• German: Prädestination (de) f

• Portuguese: predestinação (pt) f
• Russian: предопределение (ru) (predopredelenije) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: предодређење (sh) n

  Latin: predodređenje (sh) n

• Spanish: predestinación (es) f

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Old French

Noun

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

1. predestination (doctrine that everything has been foreordained by a God, especially that certain people have been elected for salvation, with others destined for reprobation)