Predestination synonyms

prē-dĕs'tə-nā'shən

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decree
An authoritative order having the force of law.
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prediction
A statement of what will happen in the future.
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intention
The definition of intention is a determination or plan to do a specific thing.
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predetermination
Something that has been decided in advance.
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fortune
Good luck.
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foreordainment
Fate
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doom
Death.
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forecast (related)
An estimation of a future condition.
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destiny (related)
That to which any person or thing is destined; a predetermined state; a condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.
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determinism
(Ethics) The doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice.
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fatalism
The belief that all events are determined by fate and, therefore, inevitable
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fate
Death; destruction; doom
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foredoom
(Archaic) A sentence or judgment in advance; destiny
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foreknowledge
Knowing beforehand, prescience, foresight, precognition
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necessarianism
(Philosophy, metaphysics, theology) An extreme form of determinism that holds that all phenomena, including the will, are subject to immutable rules of cause and effect; necessitarianism.
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preordination
The state or process of things being preordained.
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kismet
Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny.
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lot
A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
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portion
A section or quantity within a larger thing; a part of a whole.
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certain (related)
A certain indefinite number; certain ones (of)
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transubstantiation (related)
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reprobation (related)
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arminianism (related)
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doctrine (related)
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infallibility (related)
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religious-truth (related)
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kenosis (related)
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Predestination Sentence Examples

  • Thus Jansen's theories of conversion melt into predestination; although, in doing so, they somewhat modify its grimness.

  • He did not minutely analyse the doctrine of predestination as Luther, Calvin and Zwingli did, contenting himself with the summary "Our Salvation is of God, our perdition of ourselves."

  • Against the Calvinists the synod of 1672 therefore aimed its rejection of unconditional predestination and of justification by faith alone, also its advocacy of what are substantially the Roman doctrines of transubstantiation and of purgatory; the Oriental hostility to Calvinism had been fanned by the Jesuits.

  • Sikhism mainly differs from Christianity in that it inculcates the transmigration of the soul, and adopts a belief in predestination, which is universal in the East.

  • He had embraced the Motazilite doctrine about free will and predestination, and was in particular shocked at the opinion which had spread among the Moslem doctors that the Koran was the uncreated word of God.

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