predestination

See also: prédestination

English

WOTD – 29 January 2016

Etymology

From Middle English predestinacion, from Old French predestination, from Late Latin praedēstinātiō. Displaced native Old English foreteohhung.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɹi.dɛs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən
  • Hyphenation: pre‧des‧ti‧na‧tion

Noun

predestination (countable and uncountable, plural predestinations)

  1. (theology) The doctrine that everything has been foreordained by God or by fate.
  2. (Calvinism, specifically) The doctrine that certain people have been elected for salvation, and sometimes also that others are destined for reprobation.
  3. Destiny or fate.

Translations

Old French

Noun

predestination oblique singular, f (oblique plural predestinations, nominative singular predestination, nominative plural predestinations)

  1. predestination (doctrine that everything has been foreordained by God)

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praedestinatio.

Noun

predestination c

  1. predestination

Declension

Declension of predestination 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative predestination predestinationen
Genitive predestinations predestinationens
  • predestinera

Further reading

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