predestinate

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About a century and half later, even the wise Defoe wrote in his London plague novel that Turks and Mahometans “professed predestinating Notions, and of every Man’s End being predetermined.”

From New York Times

She thanked and complimented him warmly, but without being very much astonished at his success, for she began to think he was predestinated.

From Project Gutenberg

It is unreasonable to suppose that because God has predestinated all events, we need not take any step in the matter of our salvation.

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We are “predestinated to be conformed to the image of God’s Son.”

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I looked into their faces, grown at once grave and predestinate; the shadow was there, a cloud upon their brows, a veil across the brightness of their eyes.

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