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forepurpose

forepurpose noun: a predetermined purpose.

Noun

forepurpose (plural forepurposes)

  1. A predetermined purpose
    • According to the forepurpose of eternity, which he wrought in Christ Jesus, the Lord of us; [...]1827, William Carpenter, Critica Biblica
    • Man in the mind of God, in the eternal foreknowledge and forepurpose of God, man "as he shall be when his becoming shall be complete," is not less but more man than in his inchoate beginnings and in his incomplete processes.1911, William Porcher Dubose, The Reason of Life

Forms of forepurpose

pluralforepurposes
alternative formfore-purpose

Origin of forepurpose

From fore- + purpose.

Questions about forepurpose

What does forepurpose mean?
Forepurpose means a predetermined purpose.
What part of speech is forepurpose?
Forepurpose is a noun.
What is the plural of forepurpose?
The plural of forepurpose is forepurposes.

Words near forepurpose in the dictionary

  1. foreprovided
  2. foreprovides
  3. foreproviding
  4. forepublished
  5. forepurchased
  6. forepurpose
  7. forepurposes
  8. forequarter
  9. forequarters
  10. forequoted
  11. Forer effect

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