preordain
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- preordination noun
- unpreordained adjective
Etymology
Origin of preordain
Example Sentences
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People come into their careers with a preordained notion of what work they’re going to do.
Ejae, meanwhile, offered an anecdote that suggests “Golden’s” success may have been preordained.
From Los Angeles Times
Daddis believes that “a twisted relation with faith and fear, if left unbroken, can only preordain the nation to a militarized way of life bounded by the grimness of war.”
From Salon
That Los Angeles would someday overtake San Francisco in prominence was in some respects preordained.
From Los Angeles Times
Though Cruise loves making movies, he doesn’t enjoy being their preordained salvation.
From Salon
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