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predestinate

verb as in foreordain

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The criminal always work at one crime—that is the true criminal who seems predestinate to crime, and who will of none other.

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About a century and half later, even the wise Defoe wrote in his London plague novel that Turks and Mahometans “professed predestinating Notions, and of every Man’s End being predetermined.”

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She thanked and complimented him warmly, but without being very much astonished at his success, for she began to think he was predestinated.

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It is unreasonable to suppose that because God has predestinated all events, we need not take any step in the matter of our salvation.

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We are “predestinated to be conformed to the image of God’s Son.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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