foreordain
verb (used with object)
to ordain or appoint beforehand.
foreordainment
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a word derived from
foreordain.
Example Sentences
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Answered the King, "O Wazir, indeed I have fixed this fault upon myself, even as thou hast said, and I have no excuse except divine foreordainment."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
