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predestinate

[pri-des-tuh-neyt, pri-des-tuh-nit, -neyt] / prɪˈdɛs təˌneɪt, prɪˈdɛs tə nɪt, -ˌneɪt /


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I have recently learned that I am But a creature that moves In predestinate grooves.

From Time Magazine Archive

A rarer, more intense, more strictly predestinate genius has never been known to poetry.

From The Hound of Heaven by Thompson, Francis

That none be saued, but they are before predestinate.

From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Laing, David

"Whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified."

From The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John

The two halves of their nature are so completely joined that they seem to labour for their objects, and yet to desire whatever happens, being at the same instant predestinate and free, creation’s very self.

From The Trembling of the Veil by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

And right now no one seems to posses the same sense of predestinated greatness that accompanied Warne, Murali and Tendulkar.

From The Guardian Apr. 5, 2011

God predestinated that we should be like him.

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert

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

From The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah by Dinet, Etienne

Good-by, therefore, to poor Canova—whose gallery no longer needs detain his successor100 Jules, the predestinated novel thinker in marble! 5th Student.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra

Nor will it follow, because God hath predestinated some things, that he hath, therefore, decreed all things.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur

His existence appears as fashioned in essence and end by predestinating power, and the Eternal "takes the responsibility."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various

Within it by Thy predestinating knowledge and might, He had set forth all that is essential and obligatory for the upraising of Thy Cause in this world below.

From Bahíyyih Khánum by Baha'i World Centre



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