"predestination" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /pɹi.dɛs.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/ Audio: en-us-predestination.ogg Forms: predestinations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Middle English predestinacion, from Old French predestination, from Late Latin praedēstinātiō. Displaced native Old English foreteohhung. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|predestinacion}} Middle English predestinacion, {{der|en|fro|predestination}} Old French predestination, {{der|en|LL.|praedēstinātiō}} Late Latin praedēstinātiō, {{ncog|ang|foreteohhung}} Old English foreteohhung Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} predestination (countable and uncountable, plural predestinations)
  1. (theology) The doctrine that everything has been foreordained by God or by fate. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Theology
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  2. (Calvinism, specifically) The doctrine that certain people have been elected for salvation, and sometimes also that others are destined for reprobation. Tags: countable, specifically, uncountable
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  3. Destiny or fate. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (destiny or fate): орис (oris) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 前定 (qiándìng) (Chinese Mandarin), foreteohhung (Old English), predestynacja [feminine] (Polish), предназначение (prednaznačenije) [neuter] (Russian), ప్రారబ్ధము (prārabdhamu) (Telugu)
    Sense id: en-predestination-en-noun-Xy0yuRKZ Disambiguation of 'destiny or fate': 15 1 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: determinism, predestinational Translations (religious doctrine): նախասահմանում (naxasahmanum) (Armenian), նախասահմանություն (naxasahmanutʻyun) (Armenian), predestinación [feminine] (Asturian), предопределение (predopredelenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), predestinació [feminine] (Catalan), 宿命论 (sùmìnglùn) (Chinese Mandarin), předurčení [neuter] (Czech), prædestination [common-gender] (Danish), forudbestemmelse [common-gender] (Danish), voorbestemdheid [feminine] (Dutch), predestinatie [feminine] (Dutch), sortdifino (Esperanto), prédestination [feminine] (French), predestinación [feminine] (Galician), Prädestination [feminine] (German), Vorherbestimmung [feminine] (German), προορισμός (proorismós) [masculine] (Greek), 예정 (yejeong) (alt: 豫定) (Korean), predestinasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), forutbestemmelse [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), predestinasjon [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), forutbestemming [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), foreteohhung [feminine] (Old English), تقدیر (takdir) (Ottoman Turkish), تقدیر (taqdir) (Persian), predestynacja [feminine] (Polish), predestinação [feminine] (Portuguese), предопределе́ние (predopredelénije) [neuter] (Russian), предназначе́ние (prednaznačénije) [neuter] (Russian), предодређење [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), predodređenje [Latin, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), predestinación [feminine] (Spanish), predestination [common-gender] (Swedish), förutbestämmelse [common-gender] (Swedish), напередвизначення (naperedvyznačennja) [neuter] (Ukrainian), rhagarfaeth [feminine] (Welsh)
Disambiguation of 'religious doctrine': 51 47 1

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