predestination
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• noun
The theological doctrine that God has eternally ordained all events that will happen, especially with regard to the ultimate salvation or damnation of individual souls.
"The sixteenth-century reformer wrote extensively on the doctrine of predestination and its implications for human agency."
An established destiny or inevitable outcome determined beforehand; fate.
"Looking back at their shared history, their eventual reunion felt like a matter of predestination rather than mere coincidence."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Old French 'predestinacion' and Church Latin 'praedestinationem' ('a foreordaining'), a noun of action from the verb 'praedestinare' ('to appoint beforehand'), formed from 'prae-' ('before') and 'destinare' ('to make firm or establish').