PREDESTINATION
\pɹɪdˌɛstɪnˈe͡ɪʃən], \pɹɪdˌɛstɪnˈeɪʃən], \p_ɹ_ɪ_d_ˌɛ_s_t_ɪ_n_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of PREDESTINATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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(theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind)
By Princeton University
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(theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind)
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The act of predestinating.
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The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. See Calvinism.
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The act of predestinating.
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The foreordination of all things by God.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The doctrine that God has from all eternity ordered whatever comes to pass; in theology, the decree that determines the happiness or misery of men; fate; destiny; foreknowledge.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. Act of decreeing or of foreordaining events;-the unchangeable purpose and decree of God by which from eternity he ordains whatsoever comes to pass ; especially the eternal counsel and will of God ordaining the elect to everlasting life, and the reprobate to everlasting death.
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