preordain

verb

pre·or·dain | \ ˌprē-ȯr-ˈdān

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preordained; preordaining; preordains

Definition of preordain

transitive verb

: to decree or ordain in advance : foreordain

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Other Words from preordain

preordainment \ ˌprē-ȯr-ˈdān-mənt

\ noun

preordination \ (ˌ)prē-ˌȯr-də-ˈnā-shən

\ noun

Examples of preordain in a Sentence

my wife and I are such soulmates, I'm convinced that our marriage was preordained

Recent Examples on the Web But bears cautioned that the rebound was preordained and may not stick. — Jeremy Herron, Fortune, "U.S. stocks jump 6% after worst drop since Black Monday," 13 Mar. 2020 Now that Trump has been impeached and faces a trial in the Senate, that response from Tillis to North Carolina resident Linda Sand serves as another example of the Democrats' suspicion that the outcome may already be preordained. — NBC News, "Vulnerable GOP senators' resistance to impeachment witnesses highlights Democratic concerns," 13 Jan. 2020 Memes may not be preordained, but this one is more predictable than most. — Washington Post, "R.I.P. the first meme of the decade, which has already lived and died," 1 Jan. 2020 Impeachment is now essentially preordained, but there is still a process to observe, and Democrats swiftly marched through it this week. — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, "Talking Impeachment to Death," 12 Dec. 2019 Now, with less than two weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses, several of the race’s protagonists were being called back to the capital to participate in a process whose outcome is all but preordained. — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, "How the Impeachment Trial Is Disrupting the Final Stretch of the Iowa Caucuses," 24 Jan. 2020 Name a resonant issue, theme or innovation that pertains to pro football in 2019—offenses predicated on passing, teams moving markets, the NFL as the dominant American sport—and odds are good that Davis preordained it. — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, "How the Influence of Al Davis Shaped the Modern NFL," 27 Aug. 2019 The board votes were all but preordained after the board’s executive committee took similar votes on Monday. — BostonGlobe.com, "Convention center authority approves sale of Hynes, expansion of BCEC," 20 Sep. 2019 In the past, though, the ubiquity of fossil fuels preordained that consumption (and prices) would eventually rise and tempt investors back. — Washington Post, "The Hydrocarbon Era’s Spectacular End," 7 Aug. 2019

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“Preordain.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/preordain. Accessed 16 May. 2021.

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