单词 | predamnation |
释义 | predamnationn. The action of condemning or damning in advance; an instance of this; the condition of already being condemned or damned, esp. by predestination (predestination n. 1). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > predestination > to disaster predamnation1626 fatality1654 1626 J. Yates Ibis ad Cæsarem ii. 32 As for damnation, predamnation, &c., they are acts of iustice, and not to be thought vpon without sinne. 1659 N. Bernard in J. Ussher Certain Disc. Babylon 364 The Supralapsarian opinion, which makes reprobation to be antecedent to the fall of Adam, and not only as a Praeterition, but a Predamnation for actuall sins. a1711 T. Ken Preparatives for Death in Wks. (1721) IV. 27 'Tis Predamnation to despair, 'Tis Bliss to trust God's tender Care. a1763 J. Byrom Misc. Poems (1773) 304 Must this be urg'd to prove in Men's Condition Their Pre-election, and their Præterition, Or Predamnation? 1865 W. G. Palgrave Narr. Journey through Arabia I. viii. 367 An adequate idea of predestination, or, to give it a truer name, pre-damnation, held and taught in the school of the Coran. 1969 PMLA 84 214/1 There is, therefore, in God's plan for His universe, no such thing as pre-damnation. 1999 Texas Stud. Lit. & Lang. 41 121 In their response to preterition and predamnation, epic and treatise again are fundamentally in accord with each other and with Arminius. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1626 |
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