Word Meanings - PREDESTINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. See Calvinism. (more info) 1. The act of predestinating. Predestination had overruled their will. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PREDESTINATION)

• Destiny
• Fate
• decree
• lot
• fortune
• predestination
• necessity
• doom
• end

Related words: (words related to PREDESTINATION)

• FORTUNELESS
  Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.
• DECREE
  An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils. Syn. -- Law; regulation; edict; ordinance. See Law. (more info) decretus, p. p. of decernere to decide;
• NECESSITY
  The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism. Of necessity, by necessary consequence; by compulsion, or irresistible power; perforce. Syn.
• DECREET
  The final judgment of the Court of Session, or of an inferior court, by which the question at issue is decided.
• DESTINY
  1. That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom. Thither he Will come to know his destiny. Shak. No man of woman born, Coward or brave, can
• DECREER
  One who decrees. J. Goodwin.
• DECREEABLE
  Capable of being decreed.
• PREDESTINATION
  The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. See Calvinism. (more info) 1. The act of predestinating. Predestination had overruled their will. Milton.
• FORTUNE
  chance, prob. fr. ferre to bear, bring. See Bear to support, and cf. 1. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success,
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• UNDECREED
  Not decreed. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• WHEEL OF FORTUNE
  A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
• PREDESTINY
  Predestination.
• BEFORTUNE
  To befall. I wish all good befortune you. Shak.
• MISFORTUNE
  Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance. Consider why the change was wrought, You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault. Addison. Syn. -- Calamity; mishap; mischance; misadventure; ill; harm; disaster.
• NONNECESSITY
  Absence of necessity; the quality or state of being unnecessary.
• INFORTUNE
  Misfortune. Chaucer.
• INFORTUNED
  Unfortunate. I, woeful wretch and infortuned wight. Chaucer.
• UNNECESSITY
  The state of being unnecessary; something unnecessary.