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

I do not charge Dr. Musgrave with holding this inference as a doctrine, and yet it is very clearly asserted in an argument designed to prove the Calvinistic doctrine of foreordination.

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

It is said that God’s foreknowledge involved foreordination.

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

And in this belief Mrs. Hill rested securely, but nevertheless did not fail to concoct several feminine artifices for the helping on of foreordination.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

To bring the passage forward on behalf of universal foreordination is to assume the point in debate, and it is therefore inadmissible.

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