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foreordained

vb. (en-past of: foreordain)

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foreordained

adj. established or prearranged unalterably; "his place in history was foreordained"; "a sense of predestinate inevitability about it"; "it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world" [syn: predestinate, predestined]

Usage examples of "foreordained".

Maybe, just maybe, it was foreordained that he and his son were to die here.

Only with hindsight is it easy to assume that because the superpowers did not go over the edge it was foreordained by deterrence that they should not.

If you asked her, she called it Fate, the foreordained workings of occult forces charged with dominion over human affairs.

The Sultan, thought Hamid-Jones, must be a megalomaniac to think that he had been foreordained by Allah to become the first Caliph in a thousand years!

Sight assures me that all three of you must accomplish your foreordained tasks, mastering your own selves above all, before Ruwenda may cast off the yoke of Labornok.

Often I have understood the meaning of my participation, sometimes not, but always I have followed the foreordained path that was set for me.

At precisely the right moment, just as failure or disaster seems foreordained by the previously established circumstances, Fabre shows us his insects as suddenly mastered by an irresistible force.

This Man from the West was evidently foreordained to play a part in the destinies of Blithelygo and myself, for during two years of travel he continuously crossed our path.