ALL meanings of predestination
pre·des·ti·na·tion
P p - noun predestination religious idea: God's will 1
- noun predestination an act of predestinating or predestining. 1
- noun predestination the state of being predestinated or predestined. 1
- noun predestination fate; destiny. 1
- noun predestination Theology. the action of God in foreordaining from eternity whatever comes to pass. the decree of God by which certain souls are foreordained to salvation. Compare election (def 4), double predestination. 1
- uncountable noun predestination If you believe in predestination, you believe that people have no control over events because everything has already been decided by a power such as God or fate. 0
- noun predestination the act of God foreordaining every event from eternity 0
- noun predestination the doctrine or belief, esp associated with Calvin, that the final salvation of some of mankind is foreordained from eternity by God 0
- noun predestination the act of predestining or the state of being predestined 0
- noun predestination the doctrine that 0
- noun predestination God foreordained everything that would happen 0
- noun predestination God predestines certain souls to salvation and, esp. in Calvinism, others to damnation 0
- noun predestination a predestinating or being predestinated; destiny; fate 0