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predestinate

verb as in foreordain

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The criminal always work at one crime—that is the true criminal who seems predestinate to crime, and who will of none other.

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.”

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

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

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

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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