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Predetermine vs Foredoom - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between predetermine and foredoom

is that predetermine is to doom by previous decree; to foredoom while foredoom is to predestine to a doom.

As a noun foredoom is

a doom that is predicted; destiny.

predetermine

English

Verb

  • To determine or decide in advance.
  • To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.

    • Usage notes

    * The verb itself is not as common as the derived participial adjective predetermined.

    Synonyms

    * (determine in advance) (l), (l)

    Derived terms

    * (l) ----

    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.}}

    Related terms

    * (l)