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preordination /priːɔːdɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n /noun [mass noun]1The action of determining an outcome or course of action in advance: divine perfection and preordination...- Adam, according to this interpretation, has no will of his own and is completely dependent on God's preordination.
- Such pre-ordination, if it took place, would be the destruction of all moral freedom; there would be no such thing as human responsibility, and consequently neither good nor evil, neither virtues nor crimes.
- As those other yield their service to the will and preordination of God, in the creation of children; so these also serve the will and preordination of God, in conserving their continence and virginity.
1.1The fact of being determined in advance: there was an element of preordination about the verdict...- This sense of biological preordination culminates in something close to a credo later in the book.
- I've spoken to our legal people and they believed that there was an element of pre-ordination about the verdict.
- No longer able to resist the conviction which is hourly impressed on me, I recognize in every contingency the pre-ordination of my fate.
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