Word Meanings - FOREDOOM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To doom beforehand; to predestinate. Thou art foredomed to view the Stygian state. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FOREDOOM)

• Predestination
• Foreordainment
• foredoom
• necessity
• fate
• election
• preordination
• predetermination
• Preordain
• Foreordain
• predetermine
• predestine

Related words: (words related to FOREDOOM)

• FOREORDAIN
  To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate; to predetermine. Hooker.
• PREDETERMINATION
  The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.
• PREORDAIN
  To ordain or appoint beforehand: to predetermine: to foreordain. Milton.
• ELECTIONEERER
  One who electioneers.
• ELECTIONEER
  To make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate. A master of the whole art of electioneering. Macaulay.
• 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.
• ELECTION
  Divine choice; predestination of individuals as objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism. There is a remnant according to the election of grace. Rom. xi. 5. (more info) 1. The act of choosing; choice; selection.
• PREDESTINE
  To decree beforehand; to foreordain; to predestinate. Young.
• FOREDOOM
  To doom beforehand; to predestinate. Thou art foredomed to view the Stygian state. Dryden.
• PREORDINATION
  The act of foreordaining: previous determination. "The preordination of God." Bale.
• PREDETERMINE
  1. To determine beforehand. Sir M. Hale. 2. To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.
• 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.
• PRELECTION
  A lecture or discourse read in public or to a select company. "The prelections of Faber." Sir M. Hale.
• REELECTION
  Election a second time, or anew; as, the reëlection of a former chief.
• NONNECESSITY
  Absence of necessity; the quality or state of being unnecessary.
• PREELECTION
  Election beforehand.
• SELECTION
  The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference. 2. That which is selected; a collection of things chosen; as, a choice selection of books. Natural selection. See under Natural.
• BY-ELECTION
  An election held by itself, not at the time of a general election.
• UNNECESSITY
  The state of being unnecessary; something unnecessary.
• NONELECTION
  Failure of election.