- an act of predestinating or predestining.
- the state of being predestinated or predestined.
- fate; destiny.
- Theology.
- the action of God in foreordaining from eternity whatever comes to pass.
- the decree of God by which certain souls are foreordained to salvation.
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- the act of God foreordaining every event from eternity
- the doctrine or belief, esp associated with Calvin, that the final salvation of some of mankind is foreordained from eternity by God
- the act of predestining or the state of being predestined
