What is "foredoom"

Usage examples of "foredoom".

It was foredoomed to failure--for who could crouch blindly while a legion of croaking, baying entities of unknown source flopped noisomely past, scarcely more than a hundred yards away?

I had vaguely taken for granted that my friend was foredoomed to dispense with this graceful appendage, very much as Peter Schlemihl, in the tale, was condemned to have no shadow.

She would have come not because it was foredoomed, but because wizards wished her to be with Cefwyn.

He wanted not to hear it, wished nothing foredoomed or foreboding between them.

I don’t understand wizards, and prophecies, and what’s foredoomed and what isn’t.

And that fact, perhaps, had foredoomed Yolanda to find her own way through the thicket he and Jase had made of their association… and foredoomed not to get answers, and to be even further on the outside.

He saw that the walls were poorly sentineled, but they were sufficiently high to render an attempt to scale them foredoomed to failure.

But the chaplain's impression of a prior meeting was of some occasion far more momentous and occult than that, of a significant encounter with Yossarian in some remote, submerged and perhaps even entirely spiritual epoch in which he had made the identical, foredooming admission that there was nothing, absolutely nothing, he could do to help him.

To try and dissuade this young fanatic from all her high-souled foolishness was an attempt foredoomed to failure.

As it was, it had taken all Nana's influence and persuasive ability, together with Isabella's own personality and presentability, to win the opportunity from the party machine to make this foredoomed attempt.