predestination

See also: prédestination

English

WOTD – 29 January 2016

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French predestination, from Late Latin praedestinatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹi.dɛs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃen/
• 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 a 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

Translations

religious doctrine

• Armenian: նախասահմանում (hy) (naxasahmanum), նախասահմանություն (hy) (naxasahmanutʻyun)
• Asturian: predestinación f
• 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 f
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• Greek: προορισμός (el) m (proorismós)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: predestinasjon m, forutbestemmelse m

  Nynorsk: predestinasjon m, forutbestemming f

• Persian: تقدیر (fa) (taqdir)
• 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)

destiny or fate

• Russian: предназначение (ru) n (prednaznačenije)
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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 a God, especially that certain people have been elected for salvation, with others destined for reprobation)

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Swedish

Noun

predestination c

1. predestination