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foreordain

UK/ˌfɔːɹɔːˈdeɪn/

foreordain verb: to predestine or preordain.

Verb

foreordain (third-person singular simple present foreordains, present participle foreordaining, simple past and past participle foreordained)

  1. (transitive) To predestine or preordain.
    • What had Wyrd fore-ordained? Naegling blunted and this time broke into kindling.1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 46
    • God has made the decision before all time, so some are foreordained to be saved through grace – a predestined group of the elect.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 308

foreordain meaning in Tamil and Kannada

foreordain in Tamil

to foreordain, predestine
எழுது eḻutu

foreordain in Kannada

ಮೊದಲೇ ನಿಯಂತ್ರಿಸು, ಪೂರ್ವನಿಶ್ಚಯ ಮಾಡು

Forms of foreordain

third-person singular presentforeordains
present participleforeordaining
past participleforeordained
pastforeordained

Origin of foreordain

From Middle English for-orden; equivalent to fore- + ordain; probably modeled on Latin praeordināre.

Words formed from foreordain

Questions about foreordain

What does foreordain mean?
Foreordain means to predestine or preordain.
What is foreordain in Tamil?
Foreordain in Tamil is எழுது (eḻutu). See Foreordain meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is foreordain?
Foreordain is a verb.
How do you pronounce foreordain?
Foreordain is pronounced /ˌfɔːɹɔːˈdeɪn/ (UK).
What is the past tense of foreordain?
The past tense of foreordain is foreordained.

Words near foreordain in the dictionary

  1. forensicist
  2. forensicists
  3. forensick
  4. forensics
  5. forensive
  6. foreordain
  7. foreordained
  8. foreordainer
  9. foreordainers
  10. foreordaining
  11. foreordainment

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Adapted from Wiktionary: foreordain (page history and authors); எழுது (Tamil) (page history and authors); foreordain (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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