predestinate
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
I have recently learned that I am But a creature that moves In predestinate grooves.
From Time Magazine Archive
Article Third runs thus, “The predestinate are a predeterminate and certain number, which can neither be lessened nor increased.”
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
And so the pleasant facile days went by in idly roving, idly writing, meeting interrogatively his predestinate experience and setting the more presentable answers down.
From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins
A rarer, more intense, more strictly predestinate genius has never been known to poetry.
From The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson
"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate."
From Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others by Allen Pringle
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
These angels and men thus predestinated and foreordained are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number is so certain and definite that it can neither be increased nor diminished.”
From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Robert Wallace
For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son; that he might be the firstborn amongst many brethren.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
“He hath predestinated us to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ unto himself.”
From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by F. (Francis) Hodgson
I firmly believe, sir, that he was a predestinated villain from his cradle, for he showed symptoms of the most disgusting depravity more early than ever laddie did.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 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
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
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a word