predestination
pree de stuh nay shuhn
- n previous determination as if by destiny or fate
- n (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind)
- Through the gauze of dusk forms a cluster of starsno, a spider's web the filigree work of predestination, trapping every animal who will pass through this forest.
- It is to him that we owe such doctrines as original sin and predestination.
- I do not see predestination as either a blind force.