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- verb Present participle of
predestine .
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Examples
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Are we “predestining” our fetuses for their roles in life, exalted or humble, by the conditions we provide to them before birth?
Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010
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Moon 'is known as _Yue-lao_, and is reputed to hold in his hands the power of predestining the marriages of mortals -- so that marriages, if not, according to the native idea, exactly made in heaven, are made somewhere beyond the bounds of earth.
Moon Lore Timothy Harley
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Parable of the Potter (as we have seen) it is for service as vessels that the clay is moulded; God is revealed not as predestining character or quality, but as shaping characters for ends for which under His hand they yield suitable qualities.
Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 George Adam Smith 1899
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Other factors predestining Austin to be the first international car2go city are the city's size and its up-to-date economic structure.
Jalopnik 2009
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If the most predestining genes are not perfect predictors of outcome.
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Does He take into consideration foreseen actions of men in predestining the elect, using His middle knowledge, which is part of His omniscience)?
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