foreordain

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How funny it would be if his biggest hit song ever was the one he didn’t foreordain at all?

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2018

But it does not foreordain that they will be incapable of finding common ground, or that the current period of intense partisanship will go on forever.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 25, 2018

To others, it celebrated the ability of Mr. Burden, whose very surname seemed to foreordain a life of professional dolor, to inscribe himself indelibly into his own work, as artists from J.S.

From New York Times • May 11, 2015

That a ruler may secretly will, purpose, decree, foreordain, that his, subjects shall act in a certain way.

From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by Hodgson, F. (Francis)

And again: A being may purpose, foreordain, and bring to pass all the sin and misery in the universe, and yet be perfectly benevolent.

From The Calvinistic Doctrine of Predestination Examined and Refuted by Hodgson, F. (Francis)