foreordination
AmericanEtymology
Origin of foreordination
First recorded in 1620–30; fore- + ordination
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Not one word about believing in the Trinity, or in foreordination or predestination.
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The more common terms are decree, predestination, foreordination, predetermination, purpose, &c.—These are all authoritative terms, and carry with them the idea of absolute sovereignty.
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Oliver Cromwell never believed more radically in the foreordination of all human actions than did he.
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It was one of those apparently chance movements that have vital consequences, and that have always made me believe in the old Calvinistic creed of foreordination.
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And it come over me all at once, Maria, that the doctrine of foreordination holds good with things as well as people.
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