foredoom
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To every season But whatever its source, midlife stress does not foredoom us to a life out of control, especially in our relationships.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 5, 2015
Ah! who shall paint the grandam's grim dismay, When loose Reform enticed her boy away; When shockt she heard him ape the rabble's tone, And in Old Sarum's fate foredoom her own!
From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by William Michael Rossetti
To make his first experiment in maneuvering against such an expert in the science of war as Lee, would have been to foredoom himself to defeat.
From On the Trail of Grant and Lee by Frederick Trevor Hill
They must be of the style prevalent at the date of the play; Colonial clothes in a Mid-Victorian setting foredoom the play to failure.
From Book of Etiquette, Volume 2 by Lillian Eichler Watson
Of course the girl's anticipations of "God's country" were too glowing not to foredoom her to disappointment.
From Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly
