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Another word for predestination

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Noun

  1. That which is inevitably destined

      1. A woman's dowry:
      2. The part of experience supposedly allotted to a person by fate; one's lot; destiny
      3. A person's lot or fate.
      1. (Informal) A large extent, amount, or number:
      2. An individual of a particular kind or type:
      3. A number of associated people or things:
      1. Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny.
      2. Fate; fortune.
      1. The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; luck:
      2. Success, especially when at least partially resulting from luck:
      3. What happens or is going to happen to one; one's lot, good or bad, esp. one's future lot
      1. A final result or consequence; an outcome:
      2. Something inevitable, supposedly determined by this power
      3. What happens or has happened to a person or entity; lot; fortune
      1. The power or agency thought to predetermine events:
      2. A predetermined course of events considered as something beyond human power or control:
      3. The inevitable or necessary fate to which a particular person or thing is destined; one's lot.
    See also:

    certain

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Another word for predestination

Noun

  1. A forecast

    See also:

    forecast

  2. Fate

      1. An official order, edict, or decision, as of a church, government, court, etc.
      2. (Roman Catholic Church) A doctrinal or disciplinary act of an ecclesiastical authority.
      3. An authoritative order having the force of law.
      1. The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; luck:
      2. Success, especially when at least partially resulting from luck:
      3. A person's condition or standing in life determined by material possessions or financial wealth:
      1. A judgment; esp., a sentence of condemnation
      2. A decision or judgment, especially an official condemnation to a severe penalty.
      3. (Historical) A statute; decree
    See also:

    destiny

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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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