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Meanings of foreordained in English

Established or prearranged unalterably.

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Usage of foreordained in English
1
This was foreordained in the Secret Purpose, and reparation is with Allah.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09
2
I know my death is foreordained by you, Mine and my wife's.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3
It is part of the divine wisdom, the foreordained plan of my life.
Sacrifice
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
Was it not foreordained that I should meet my end in these woods?
David Malcolm
7
Did God take Johnnie from me because my wickedness was foreordained?
The diary of mattie spenser
8
Whether or not we tumble into planet-burning war isn't foreordained.
Existence
9
It was futile to try to avoid what was foreordained.
Helen of troy
10
Either way her imminent death feels as good as foreordained.
Night of knives
11
It was foreordained, and now I've got to live up to it in self-defense.
Sunny Slopes
12
The Roman Empire was foreordained and established for this end.
The Divine Comedy, Volume 1, Hell
13
Without it he felt himself to be a creature predestined and foreordained to disaster.
From Place to Place
14
The time foreordained unto the peoples and kindreds of the earth is now come.
Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
15
I was lulled to slumber on the squalls of infants dead, foreordained, and predamned.
The Little Lady of the Big House
16
Yet she spoke of the tarn, where he must inevitably meet a foreordained fate.
The Tarn of Eternity
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