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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "predetermination" in a sentence

    predetermination example sentences

    predetermination


    1. Karma, however, is not inflexible or set in concrete – it does not mean fate or predetermination


    2. This almost brutal view of predetermination was softened by a Dutch


    3. You are not lackadaisical if this has happened, it can happen by predetermination


    4. of predetermination versus freewill once and for all, at any rate it might yield insights into


    5. The idea of the predetermination of the creation of human evolution is fully discussed in another


    6. But this event is ‘bad luck’ for the pedestrian, rather than the individual’s predetermination and predestination


    7. The appropriate contextual and metaphorical interpretation of Scripture can replace the perceived reality of pure literal interpretation of Scripture, allowing for the reconciliation of the scientific evidence of creation with Scripture’s stories of creation with regard to the predetermination of creation through evolution originating with the ‘big bang’ or ‘the Word’


    8. This greater power, may be understood, as being the creation and predetermination of the design and order of DNA that has been, in essence, pre-programmed by a Creator


    9. Some weeks passed after this conversation before the question of the chaplaincy gathered any practical import for Lydgate, and without telling himself the reason, he deferred the predetermination on which side he should give his vote


    10. In the evening it was found, according to the predetermination of Mrs

    11. Every one knows the feeling of distrust and resistance which is always evoked by an author's evident predetermination


    12. In later times when he recalled this period of his existence, and all that happened to him in those days, minute by minute and point by point, he recollected how each circumstance, although in the main not very unusual, constantly appeared to his mind as an evidence of the predetermination of his fate, so superstitious was he


    13. If no other proof existed of a predetermination of the British Government against a repeal of its orders, it might be found in the correspondence of the Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at London, and the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in one thousand eight hundred and ten, on the question whether the blockade of May, one thousand eight hundred and six, was considered as in force, or as not in force


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    Synonyms for "predetermination"

    predetermination foreordination predestination preordination destiny conclusion decree certainty luck

    "predetermination" definitions

    (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)


    a mental determination or resolve in advance; an antecedent intention to do something


    the act of determining or ordaining in advance what is to take place