Definition of preordain
: to decree or ordain in advance : foreordain
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my wife and I are such soulmates, I'm convinced that our marriage was preordained
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Just like the spirituals invented during slavery, the blues that bubbled up after the collapse of Reconstruction, and the soul that took root during the civil-rights era, hip-hop was in a sense preordained by the social conditions of blackness.
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It was not preordained, Villanova winning a second NCAA title in three years.
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This was the tournament that reminded us that champions should not be preordained, and that epitaphs should not be prewritten.
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But watching Oladipo soar with the Pacers only reaffirms her belief that his current success was preordained.
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Nothing is preordained in a league where the difference between 10-6 and 6-10 is often a handful of plays or breaks.
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Julia considers their friendship preordained, if only because both have pale blue eyes.
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So here comes Clemson, the Tide’s desired opponent on the sport’s biggest stage — a matchup seemingly preordained the moment the clocks hit zero nearly a year ago.
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Hillary Clinton’s narrow win in the primary was the last gasp of a dying neoliberal order, the overthrow of which is now preordained.
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First Known Use of preordain
1533
preordain Synonyms
Synonyms
destine, doom, fate, foredoom, foreordain, ordain, predestine, predetermine;
Related Words
augur, forecast, foretell, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy;
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