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predestination

pre·des·ti·na·tion [ pr destə náysh'n ]


noun 
Definition:
 
1. advance decision by God about events: in some religious beliefs, the doctrine that God, a deity, or fate has established in advance everything that is going to happen and that nothing can change this

2. God's decision who goes to Heaven: in some religious beliefs, the doctrine that God decided at the beginning of time who would go to heaven after death and who would not

3. act of foreordaining: the human or supposedly divine act of deciding the fate of people or things beforehand

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