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Predestinate vs Foreordain - What's the difference?

predestinate | foreordain | Synonyms |

As verbs the difference between predestinate and foreordain

is that predestinate is to predestine while foreordain is to predestine or preordain.

As an adjective predestinate

is predestinated, preordained.

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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    foreordain

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To predestine or preordain.
  • *2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 308:
  • *:God has made the decision before all time, so some are foreordained to be saved through grace – a predestined group of the elect.