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Predestinate vs Foredoom - What's the difference?

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Predestinate is a synonym of foredoom.


As verbs the difference between predestinate and foredoom

is that predestinate is to predestine while foredoom is to predestine to a doom.

As an adjective predestinate

is (archaic) predestinated, preordained.

As a noun foredoom is

a doom that is predicted; destiny.

predestinate

English

Verb

(predestinat)
  • To predestine.
    • Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. — Rom. viii. 29.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Predestinated, preordained.
  • * 1599 ,
    • God keep your ladyship still in that mind;so some gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate scratched face.
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    foredoom

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A doom that is predicted; destiny.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To predestine to a doom.
  • * Dryden
    • Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1922 , year_published=2010 , edition=HTML , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The Chessmen of Mars citation , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , passage=To search for Tara of Helium in the vast, dim labyrinth of the pits of O-Tar seemed to the Gatholian a hopeless quest, foredoomed to failure. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1932 , year_published=2010 , author=(Duff Cooper) , title=Talleyrand , publisher=The Folio Society , page=35 , passage=They appeared, upon the surface, to possess all the qualities which were likely to recommend them to the fashionable society of the day; but their mission was foredoomed to failure.}}

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