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Meanings of predestination in anglès
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predestinação català
predestinació (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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Examples for "predetermination"
Examples for "predetermination"
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This circumstance wears the look of almost a predetermination to accept defeat.
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The actual facts had little to do with the predetermination of the members.
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Most fundamentally: there was no presumption of innocence; instead, a predetermination of guilt.
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Foreknowledge and predetermination on his part are impossible, according to Renouvier.
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Some momentary paroxysm prompted the deed; there could have been no preparation, no predetermination.
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Again, we must not confound the foreknowledge of God with His foreordination.
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The doctrine of foreknowledge does not imply the truth of foreordination.
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To Rena's argument of divine foreordination Warwick attached no weight whatever.
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Within the next five minutes radiant Belle was an unconscious embodiment of foreordination to Roger.
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A man's election to salvation depended on God's foreordination.
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A merciless preordination had stacked the cards against him again.
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Spontaneous generation seems almost as great a puzzle as preordination.
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Was it not preordination?
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Your conclusion that all speculation about preordination is idle waste of time is the only wise one; but how difficult it is not to speculate!
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1: This argument shows that predestination is not furthered by the prayers of the saints, as regards the preordination.
Usage of predestination in anglès
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In another way, the effect of predestination may be considered in general.
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Objection 1: It seems that predestination does place something in the predestined.
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I believe in the doctrines of foreknowledge and predestination, as thus expounded.
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Therefore it seems the foreknowledge of merits is the cause of predestination.
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Therefore the book of life is not the same thing as predestination.
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What happened had to happen, whether or not we believe in predestination.
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Her face had for a moment a far-away death-like predestination over it.
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Everyone has his own predestination, Sergei Andreyevich had told him at Polyanka.
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The doctrine of predestination shows the limitations of such a personalised God.
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The Calvinists, with their perfect creed of predestination, were turned to stone.
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Perhaps I was by predestination a vagabond, and no doubt she was.
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If there be gourmands by predestination, there are also gourmands by profession.
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We experienced a strict social regime that gave us a sense of predestination.
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It is not difficult to reconcile divine predestination and human responsibility.
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The doctrine of predestination came back in the shape of fate or necessity.
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But predestination is the cause of the salvation of the predestined.
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Predestination through the time
Predestination across language varieties
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