foreordination
AmericanEtymology
Origin of foreordination
First recorded in 1620–30; fore- + ordination
Example Sentences
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The son of a Congregational minister who believed in predestination and foreordination, he himself began with an intention of entering the ministry; but, after two years' preparation, turned to the law and politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oliver Cromwell never believed more radically in the foreordination of all human actions than did he.
From The Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw It by Rev. Samuel Vanderlip Leech
The various explanations and definitions that have been given to foreordination, have already been noticed.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
The wisdom of God is held as proving universal foreordination.
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
In his discourses he ignored all questions of theology, such as faith, free-will, foreordination, the final perseverance of the saints, and such like, and got right down to matters involved in our every-day life.
From The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Leander Stillwell
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