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predestinate

[pri-des-tuh-neyt, pri-des-tuh-nit, -neyt] / prɪˈdɛs təˌneɪt, prɪˈdɛs tə nɪt, -ˌneɪt /


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I have recently learned that I am But a creature that moves In predestinate grooves.

From Time Magazine Archive

And so the pleasant facile days went by in idly roving, idly writing, meeting interrogatively his predestinate experience and setting the more presentable answers down.

From The Open Question a tale of two temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

"Whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified."

From The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham

The two halves of their nature are so completely joined that they seem to labour for their objects, and yet to desire whatever happens, being at the same instant predestinate and free, creation’s very self.

From The Trembling of the Veil by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

And right now no one seems to posses the same sense of predestinated greatness that accompanied Warne, Murali and Tendulkar.

From The Guardian Apr. 5, 2011

Our text is one of the strongest instances of this kind, “He hath chosen us from the foundation of the world, that we should be holy—having predestinated us unto the adoption of sons,” &c.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk

If they are predestinated and blessed, whence happens it that they disturb and torment the living, their nearest relations, their children, and all that for nothing, and simply for the sake of doing harm?

From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Henry Christmas

These angels and men, thus predestinated and foreordained, are particularly and unchangeably designed, and their number is so certain and definite, that it cannot be either increased or diminished.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

Anyhow, if I'm predestinated to be lost in New York City it's better I should be lost amongst my own kind, which talks my native language, rather than amongst plumb strangers.

From J. Poindexter, Colored by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

His existence appears as fashioned in essence and end by predestinating power, and the Eternal "takes the responsibility."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various

Within it by Thy predestinating knowledge and might, He had set forth all that is essential and obligatory for the upraising of Thy Cause in this world below.

From Bahíyyih Khánum by Baha'i World Centre



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