foreordination
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Origin of foreordination
First recorded in 1620–30; fore- + ordination
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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
In the first place, we object to the doctrine of universal foreordination because, if adhered to, it makes science and philosophy impossible.
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
Here was a foreordination as pointed as the index-finger of a guide-post.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
His tales are tales of the conscience: he is obsessed with the thought of sin, with the doctrines of foreordination and total depravity.
From Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
The tenet of universal foreordination takes from us this “coigne of vantage,” and lands us in dynamic Pantheism.
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
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