predestine
verb (used with object)
to destine in advance; foreordain; predetermine.
has predestined
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present perfectof predestine (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Still, there is no convincing some siblings who insist their birth order has predestined their role in the family.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2024
Whence, the knowledge of God, by which He firmly remembers that He has predestined some to eternal life, is called the book of life.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
He divines the sorrow to which love has predestined him.
From The Evolution of Love by Ellie Schleussner
It is an attempt to unite the Calvinistic article that God, when he chooses, calls those he has predestined to eternal life, with the attempt to make him choose our time and way.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke
Then he turned, and, pointing to Lygia, said, "Take the maiden, whom God has predestined to thee, and save her, and let Linus, who is sick, and Ursus go with you."
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin
