Definition of Preordainment

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Preordainment

preopinion
preops
preoptimization
preoptimizations
preoptimize
preoptimized
preoptimizes
preoptimizing
preoption
preoptions
preoral
preorbital
preordain
preordained
preordaining
preordainment (current term)
preordainments
preordains
preorder
preordered
preordering
preorders
preordinance
preordinances
preordination
preordinations
preorganization
preorganize
preorganized

Literary usage of Preordainment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century by Henry Osborn Taylor (1920)
"But in the Middle Ages, and still in the time of Erasmus, men saw more definitely than today the preordainment of God and his providential direction of the ..."

2. The Problem of Asia and Its Effect Upon International Policies by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1905)
"Results in such cases are matters less of formal preordainment than of growth — of evolution — stage by stage. In the past the history of such changes has ..."

3. The Problem of Asia and Its Effect Upon International Policies by Alfred Thayer Mahan (1900)
"Results in such cases are matters less of formal preordainment than of growth — of evolution — stage by stage. In the past the history of such changes has ..."

4. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1892)
"The perception of the fixed preordainment of our fate should, as he thinks, temper both sorrow and joy (8, praef.). But even the theological inferences from ..."

5. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1898)
"... of Shiraz, according to preordainment. The chronicles relate, that no sooner had he mastered the Event, than men on the instant perceived what illusion ..."

6. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1898)
"... with a flash the hoarded arrogance of ages; and the destined hand doeth what creation failed to perform; and 'tis by order, destiny, and preordainment, ..."

7. تفسير معاني القرآن الكريم باللغة by Taqī al-Dīn Hilālī, الهلالي، تقي الدين, Muhammad Muhsin Khan, Muḥammad ibn Ismāʻīl Bukhārī, Ṭabar&# (1997)
"Turned aside therefrom (ie from Muhammad sg and the Qur'an) is he who is turned aside (by the Decree and preordainment ..."

8. History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne by William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1873)
"... interferes again with human affairs, and that the reality of the portents is clue to this preordainment.8 One of the later 1 Plutarch, De Superstitione. ..."

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