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View synonyms for foreordination

foreordination

[ fawr-awr-dn-ey-shuhn, fohr- ]

noun

  1. previous ordination or appointment.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of foreordination1

First recorded in 1620–30; fore- + ordination

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Example Sentences

Oliver Cromwell never believed more radically in the foreordination of all human actions than did he.

Parson Reid, he's a worthy creatur', but he never seems to have nothin' to say about foreordination and them p'ints.

With God, knowledge is necessarily foreknowledge; and foreknowledge and foreordination must be one, in an infinite Being.

What other man has come to earth with such appointment, clothed with the authority of such foreordination?

The unity and continuity of His mission in all ages—this of necessity involving the verity of His preexistence and foreordination.

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