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Meanings of foreordain in English

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Foreordain or determine beforehand.

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        Usage of foreordain in English
        1
        What Edward cannot know is that God, if he exists, is indifferent, and therefore does not foreordain, or establish an answer to be divined.
        The new yorker
        2
        This was foreordained in the Secret Purpose, and reparation is with Allah.
        The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09
        3
        I know my death is foreordained by you, Mine and my wife's.
        The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
        4
        But as thou hast foreordained it, so it must needs be.
        The Story of the Champions of the Round Table
        5
        A thousand years back this spot had been foreordained for it.
        The Best Short Stories of 1919, and the Yearbook of the American...
        6
        Whether or not we tumble into planet-burning war isn't foreordained.
        Existence
        7
        It was futile to try to avoid what was foreordained.
        Helen of troy
        8
        The Roman Empire was foreordained and established for this end.
        The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell
        9
        The time foreordained unto the peoples and kindreds of the earth is now come.
        Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
        10
        I was lulled to slumber on the squalls of infants dead, foreordained, and predamned.
        The Little Lady of the Big House
        11
        That he could do nothing but what he was foreordained by God to do.
        God and My Neighbour
        12
        Was everything, even a baggy young teacher of Arabic, foreordained?
        Sacrifice
        13
        As close as that does God shave events foreordained from the beginning of the world.
        Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
        14
        For the work gripped him as it does those marked and foreordained for its service.
        Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
        15
        The resemblance between us was foreordained for this hour.
        Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922
        16
        Problems which were foreordained mysteries to me were to him as clear as Tahoe water.
        Stories by American Authors, Volume 5
        Translations for foreordain
        Portuguese
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        Foreordain through the time