preordained

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The founders saw America as an experiment, dependent entirely on our conscious efforts to sustain it and not on preordainment.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2024

The phrase has the ring of preordainment: From the heights of a vision, there is nowhere to go but down.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2021

The prince gave ear to the argument from preordainment, and as she was a very lovely maiden he took her too in lawful marriage.

From The Brown Fairy Book by Lang, Andrew

It was this thorough knowledge of his man, perhaps, which gave peculiar bitterness to Hunter's pen; and the letter is otherwise remarkable as a prophecy, or preordainment of that precise policy which Pres't.

From The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War by Wilson, Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas)