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Meanings of predestined in English

Established or prearranged unalterably.

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Usage of predestined in English
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Objection 1: It seems that predestination does place something in the predestined.
Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) / From the Complete Americ...
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Everythin' was predestined, and you couldn't change a bleedin' dot o' it.
Jitterbug Perfume
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And Majendie took in all the pitifulness of her sweet, predestined nature.
The Helpmate
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Objection 1: It seems that the predestined are not chosen by God.
Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) / From the Complete Americ...
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Like the enchanted princess of the fairy-tales, it awaits its predestined liberator.
Fabre, Poet of Science
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The purity of the young Adeodatus predestined him to this ascetic existence.
Saint Augustin
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The Divinely-appointed Plan must and will likewise pursue undeflected its predestined course.
Messages to America / Selected Letters and Cablegrams Addressed ...
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For this sort of predestined the present work is a sealed book.
The Physiology of Marriage, Part 1
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The solemn cast to his comely face predestined him for this talent.
A Splendid Hazard
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Hemstead was a predestined home missionary, upon whom the Christian a year.
From Jest to Earnest
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Humanity as a whole develops consistently along certain pre-established and predestined lines.
Post-Prandial Philosophy
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There stands my predestined wife, and I can marry no other woman.
The Wanderer's Necklace
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Such an experiment was at all events predestined to an ignominious failure.
Heroes of the Telegraph
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Whatever therefore appeared with my name was condemned beforehand, as predestined metaphysics.
Biographia Literaria
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If you don't find your predestined one here you'll never find her.
The Rise of David Levinsky
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A straight course to the predestined end-thatwas good, that was glorious!
In the Wilderness
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