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Meanings of predetermination in English
Portuguese
predestinação Catalan
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 "predestination"
Examples for "predestination"
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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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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 predetermination in English
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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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By so appearing, without predetermination, they contradict the first premise.
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But the predetermination of the new Thomists is not perhaps exactly that which one needs.
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It heard with predetermination, and decided without evidence.
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It is a pluralistic world just because the will of man is free, and predetermination is excluded.
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But in her heart she was convinced of its predetermination by some power other than her own volition.
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Yet we use the terms "guidance," "predetermination," and so on, at the risk of being misunderstood.
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Williams said the legal advice had stated that was a "situation where predetermination was likely to occur".
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Let it be discussed; and, although there were symptoms of predetermination in some, the abolition of it must be carried.
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Lady Audley said this with the predetermination of dressing at four, and thus dispensing with the services of her attendant.
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Jennings represents these changes as a predetermination of guilt for the accused and the derailing of a, presumably male, life.
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Upon the instant of his recovery, he sprang toward Warburton, silently and with predetermination: he must regain some fragment of those plans.
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Frequent collocations
Predetermination through the time