predestination

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /pɹi.dɛs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃen/

Noun

predestination

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

Related terms

• determinism
• predestinational

Translations

• French: prédestination
• German: Prädestination, Vorherbestimmung
• Portuguese: predestinação
• Russian: предопределе́ние
• Spanish: predestinación

Translations

• Russian: предназначение

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