"foreordain" meaning in English

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        "present"
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      "form": "foreordained",
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      "form": "foreordained",
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          "ref": "2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 308:",
          "text": "God has made the decision before all time, so some are foreordained to be saved through grace – a predestined group of the elect.",
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        "To predestine or preordain."
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        "(transitive) To predestine or preordain."
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        "singular",
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        "present"
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    {
      "form": "foreordained",
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        "past"
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    {
      "form": "foreordained",
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        "past"
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        "To predestine or preordain."
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