foreordination
AmericanEtymology
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
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 Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
The judgment day, therefore, and foreordination of all things cannot stand in the same category.
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert
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.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur
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)
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