preordain
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- preordination noun
- unpreordained adjective
Etymology
Origin of preordain
Example Sentences
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Daddis believes that “a twisted relation with faith and fear, if left unbroken, can only preordain the nation to a militarized way of life bounded by the grimness of war.”
From Salon • Oct. 1, 2025
Although the variants increase risk, they do not preordain kidney disease.
From New York Times • May 17, 2022
Not only does Polachek not want to know what other people think she should be doing, she doesn’t want to preordain it herself.
From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2019
But, Blumenthal is careful to add, it doesn't preordain another heart attack.
From Time Magazine Archive
In what sense does God purpose, preordain, and bring to pass, the voluntary conduct of moral agents?
From Doctrine of the Will by Mahan, Asa
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