predestination

From Middle English predestinacion, from Old French predestination, from Late Latin praedēstinātiō. Displaced native Old English foreteohhung.

• IPA^(key): /pɹi.dɛs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: pre‧des‧ti‧na‧tion

predestination (countable and uncountable, plural predestinations)

1. (theology) The doctrine that everything has been foreordained by God or by fate.
2. (Calvinism, specifically) The doctrine that certain people have been elected for salvation, and sometimes also that others are destined for reprobation.
3. Destiny or fate.

   Synonyms: doom, fortune; see also Thesaurus:fate

• determinism
• predestinational

predestination oblique singular, f (oblique plural predestinations, nominative singular predestination, nominative plural predestinations)

1. predestination (doctrine that everything has been foreordained by God)

Borrowed from Latin praedestinatio.

predestination c

1. predestination

• predestinera

• determinism
• fatalism

• predestination in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker