ADJECTIVE
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established or prearranged unalterably
it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world
a sense of predestinate inevitability about it
his place in history was foreordained
How To Use foreordained In A Sentence
- Abraham learned that God had selected and foreordained many spirits to specific missions in mortality.
- But it was equally unpleasant to drift aimlessly through the blackness of space, all the while abiding either the fortuity of happening upon errant matter or the slow, foreordained approach of death.
- It was foreordained that the company would suffer a spectacular collapse.
- For so the Son of God was "foreknown" (so the Greek for "foreordained," 1Pe 1: 20) to be the sacrificial Lamb, not against, or without His will, but His will rested in the will of the Father; this includes self-conscious action; nay, even cheerful acquiescense. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- And they rejoice, he "has made all things for himself; yea, even the wricked for the day of evil;" and that he has, for his own glory, foreordained whatsoever comes to pass. Sermons on various important subjects of doctrine and practice
- The purchaser of stock, of course, who must always bear in mind that stocks are never foreordained to go up or down.
- In the pre-earth life, I was already foreordained to be a missionary.
- Because Watergate has become part of the received national lore—with heroes, villains, and the comforting moral that crime does not pay—we forget that its outcome was not foreordained and that those two years were very suspenseful. The Good Fight
- Right, but that's a rather rigid view as though "foreknown" can't be a part of an overall foreordained scheme. It Is Written: LOST and Slumdog Millionaire, Peter and Judas, Ben and John
- This was foreordained in the Secret Purpose, and reparation is with Allah. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night