predestination
See also: prédestination
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Old French predestination, from Late Latin praedestinatio. Displaced native Old English foreteohhung.
Pronunciation
Noun
predestination (countable and uncountable, plural predestinations)
- (theology) The doctrine that everything has been foreordained by God or by fate.
- (Calvinism, specifically) The doctrine that certain people have been elected for salvation, and sometimes also that others are destined for reprobation.
- Destiny or fate.
Related terms
Translations
religious doctrine
destiny or fate
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Old French
Noun
predestination oblique singular, f (oblique plural predestinations, nominative singular predestination, nominative plural predestinations)
- predestination (doctrine that everything has been foreordained by a God, especially that certain people have been elected for salvation, with others destined for reprobation)
Swedish
Noun
predestination c
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