predestining
Fixing fate beforehand
Predestining is determining outcomes in advance, especially by divine will.
In theological contexts, God predestines souls for salvation or damnation before birth.
More loosely, circumstances or traits can predestine someone for a particular fate: His temperament was predestining him for conflict with authority.
The word implies inevitability—what's predestined cannot be avoided.
Preordained future outcome
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- lotLarge amount or portion
- providenceDivine protective care
karma · foreordination · stars · wheel of fortune · fatefulness · cosmic plan · life path · written
Officially appointed to ministry
- decreedFormally ordered by authority
- providenceDivine protective care
- God's willDivine intention or decree
- electChoose by vote
chosen · calling · divine plan · theological · Calvinist · salvation · grace · sovereignty
Impossible to avoid
- unavoidableImpossible to prevent
- inexorableImpossible to prevent
- foreordainedDecided in advance unavoidably
- ineluctableImpossible to evade
fixed · unalterable · immutable · certain · sealed · irreversible · destined · doomed
Announcing future events
- oracleAuthoritative wisdom source
- seerOne who envisions futures
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
augury · omen · soothsayer · clairvoyant · precognition · prognostication · portent · presage
kismet
Preordained future outcome
providence · karma · foreordination · stars · wheel of fortune · fatefulness · cosmic plan · life path · written · sealed
ordained
Officially appointed to ministry
- decreedFormally ordered by authority
- providenceDivine protective care
- God's willDivine intention or decree
elect · chosen · calling · divine plan · theological · Calvinist · salvation · grace · sovereignty · election
inescapable
Impossible to avoid
- unavoidableImpossible to prevent
- inexorableImpossible to prevent
- foreordainedDecided in advance unavoidably
ineluctable · fixed · unalterable · immutable · certain · sealed · irreversible · destined · doomed · fated
foretelling
Announcing future events
divination · augury · omen · soothsayer · clairvoyant · precognition · prognostication · portent · presage · harbinger
predestiningfree will
Autonomous choice capacity
agency · self-determination · choice · autonomy · human freedom
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