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prædestination

prædestination is the obsolete form of predestination.

Meaning of predestination

Noun

predestination (countable and uncountable, plural predestinations)

  1. The doctrine that everything has been foreordained by God or by fate.
  2. (specifically) The doctrine that certain people have been elected for salvation, and sometimes also that others are destined for reprobation.
  3. Destiny or fate.

Forms of prædestination

pluralprædestinations

Questions about prædestination

What is prædestination the obsolete form of?
Prædestination is the obsolete form of predestination.

Words near prædestination in the dictionary

  1. prædator
  2. prædators
  3. prædatory
  4. prædecessor
  5. prædecessors
  6. prædestination
  7. prædicament
  8. prædicaments
  9. prædicate
  10. prædicated
  11. prædicates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prædestination (page history and authors); predestination (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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