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  • verb Present participle of predestine.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • If the most predestining genes are not perfect predictors of outcome.

    The Inverse Square Blog 2009

  • Does He take into consideration foreseen actions of men in predestining the elect, using His middle knowledge, which is part of His omniscience)?

    Biblical Evidence for Catholicism 2009

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