foreordination
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The son of a Congregational minister who believed in predestination and foreordination, he himself began with an intention of entering the ministry; but, after two years' preparation, turned to the law and politics.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the first place, we object to the doctrine of universal foreordination because, if adhered to, it makes science and philosophy impossible.
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
But if foreknowledge involves foreordination, then by the laws of logic He has foreordained sin.
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
And in this belief Mrs. Hill rested securely, but nevertheless did not fail to concoct several feminine artifices for the helping on of foreordination.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Here was a foreordination as pointed as the index-finger of a guide-post.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
