foreordain
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English for-orden; equivalent to fore- + ordain; probably modeled on Latin praeordināre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]foreordain (third-person singular simple present foreordains, present participle foreordaining, simple past and past participle foreordained)
- (transitive) To predestine or preordain.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 308:
- God has made the decision before all time, so some are foreordained to be saved through grace – a predestined group of the elect.