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Definition of Preordaining
1. preordain [v] - See also: preordain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preordaining
Literary usage of Preordaining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poets the Interpreters of Their Ageby Anna Swanwick by Anna Swanwick (1892)
"Should this theory prove correct, our sense of the mysterious grandeur of the
universe, and of the preordaining wisdom of the all- pervading mind, would, ..."
2. Evolution and Dogma by John Augustine Zahm (1896)
"Whether Aristotle believed that God is immanent in nature, and continually working
through the agency of natural causes, or conceived Him as preordaining ..."
3. The Works of the Late Right Honourable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke by Henry Saint-John Bolingbroke, Oliver Goldsmith (1809)
"preordaining them. Yes, foresee, or rather see, as he knows all the most contingent
events that happen in the course of his general providence, ..."
4. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1839)
"_ 4|*- - will, and preordaining of things to come, should not be before his
prescience of the same, as the efficient cause before the effect, ..."