predetermine
verb (used with object)
to settle or decide in advance.
are predetermining
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present progressiveof predetermine.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Brown even believes that our "insurgent lusts and passions" are predetermining causes of heresy, so that in respect both to faith and to works they achieve our damnation.
From Arrows of Freethought by G. W. (George William) Foote
