foredoom
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To every season But whatever its source, midlife stress does not foredoom us to a life out of control, especially in our relationships.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 5, 2015
Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign Tyrants and of Nymphs at home; Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
"Our Lord, for whom we keep this day, When nailed upon the tree; Did he foredoom his foes, or pray That they might pardoned be?"
From The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme by Thomas Cooper
A figure of Pan under a fig-tree, with this inscription:— "O thou, to whom Broad-leaved fig-trees even now foredoom Their ripen'd fruitage."
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington
This Partridge soon shall view in cloudless skies, When next he looks thro' Galileo's eyes; And hence th' egregious wizard shall foredoom The fate of Louis, and the fall of Rome.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
