foreordination

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The son of a Congregational minister who believed in predestination and foreordination, he himself began with an intention of entering the ministry; but, after two years' preparation, turned to the law and politics.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may be used first in the general sense of foreordination.

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert

But how can these words prove universal foreordination?

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert

Both in Paradise Lost and in the Treatise of Christian Doctrine he enlarges with much dogmatism and some arrogance on the difference between foreknowledge and foreordination.

From Milton by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

The tenet of universal foreordination takes from us this “coigne of vantage,” and lands us in dynamic Pantheism.

From The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election by Wallace, Robert