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
This Partridge soon shall view in cloudless skies, When next he looks thro' Galileo's eyes; And hence th' egregious wizard shall foredoom The fate of Louis, and the fall of Rome.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
All that was to happen in this universe did God foresee and foredoom, and lo! it cometh to pass.
From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Paul Radin
Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by George Gilfillan
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