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
His tales are tales of the conscience: he is obsessed with the thought of sin, with the doctrines of foreordination and total depravity.
From Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
Here was a foreordination as pointed as the index-finger of a guide-post.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie
As a proof of universal foreordination, the passage proves nothing.
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert
The tenet of universal foreordination takes from us this “coigne of vantage,” and lands us in dynamic Pantheism.
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert
