predestination

See also: prédestination

English

WOTD – 29 January 2016

Etymology

From Middle English predestinacion, from Old French predestination, from Late Latin praedēstinātiō. By surface analysis, predestine +‎ -ation. Displaced native Old English foreteohhung.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹi.dɛs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (US):

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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.

   Synonyms: doom, fortune; see also Thesaurus:fate

Derived terms

• nonpredestination
• predestinationism
• predestinationist

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
• Finnish: predestinaatio (fi), ennaltamäärääminen
• 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
• 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
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: تقدیر (takdir)

• Ukrainian: напередвизначення n (naperedvyznačennja)
• Vietnamese: tiền định (vi)
• Welsh: rhagarfaeth f

destiny or fate

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

  Mandarin: 前定 (zh) (qiándìng)

• Finnish: kohtalo (fi)
• Old English: foreteohhung
• Polish: predestynacja (pl) f
• Russian: предназначение (ru) n (prednaznačenije)
• Telugu: ప్రారబ్ధము (te) (prārabdhamu)

See also

• Augustinian
• irresistible grace

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

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	predestination	predestinations
	definite	predestinationen	predestinationens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• predestinera

See also

• determinism
• fatalism

Further reading

• “predestination”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)