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
I do not charge Dr. Musgrave with holding this inference as a doctrine, and yet it is very clearly asserted in an argument designed to prove the Calvinistic doctrine of foreordination.
From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by Hodgson, F. (Francis)
Both in Paradise Lost and in the Treatise of Christian Doctrine he enlarges with much dogmatism and some arrogance on the difference between foreknowledge and foreordination.
From Milton by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
What other man has come to earth with such appointment, clothed with the authority of such foreordination?
From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by Talmage, James Edward
But if foreknowledge involves foreordination, then by the laws of logic He has foreordained sin.
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert
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