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
The same doctrine is held by the younger Hodge—that foreknowledge involves foreordination.
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
Here was a foreordination as pointed as the index-finger of a guide-post.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
All the conflicting opinions and acts in the fiercest controversy that ever raged, this theory traces up to the Divine foreordination.
From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by F. (Francis) Hodgson
Oliver Cromwell never believed more radically in the foreordination of all human actions than did he.
From The Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw It by Rev. Samuel Vanderlip Leech
