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Preordination

Definition: Preordination

Preordination

Noun

1. (theology) the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "preordination" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)


Synonyms: Preordination

Synonyms: foreordination (n), predestination (n), predetermination (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Preordination

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Necessity

Destiny, destination; fatality, fate, kismet, doom, foredoom, election, predestination; preordination, foreordination; lot fortune; fatalism; inevitableness; Adjective: spell.

Predetermination

Noun: predestination, preordination, premeditation, predeliberation, predetermination; foregone conclusion, fait accompli; parti pris; resolve, propendency; intention; project; fate, foredoom, necessity.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: Preordination

Language Translations for "preordination"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

parapërgatitje (prearrangement), rregullim që përpara. (various references)

   

German

  

Vorherbestimmung (predestination, predetermination). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

προορισμόσ (bourn, destination, destiny, foreordination, predestination, purpose). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

eleve elrendelés (predestination), előre elrendelés. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eordinationpray

   

Russian 

  

предопределение (predestination, predetermination). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

preodrediti. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förutbestämmelse. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Preordination

Derivations

Words beginning with "preordination": preordinations. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Preordination" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: periodisation, precoordination. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Preordination"

Words rhyming with "preordination" (pronounced 'Pre*or`di*na"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Preordination

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-i-n-n-o-o-p-r-r-t"

-2 letters: opinionated.

-3 letters: inordinate, ordination, peroration, pteranodon.

-4 letters: entropion, irridenta, nonrioter, operation, opinioned, perdition, portioned, predation, prenotion, preordain, pretorian, pronation, proration, rendition.

-5 letters: adoption, adroiter, anointed, anointer, anterior, antinode, antipode, antiporn, arointed, atropine, daintier, dipteran, dipteron, donation, droopier, endpoint, ideation, indentor, inerrant, interior, intrepid, iodation, iodinate, nonrated, noontide, operator, optioned, ordainer, ordinate, paintier, pardoner, parotoid.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-i-n-n-o-o-p-r-r-t"
 

+1 letter: preordinations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Preordination


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 72 65 6F 72 64 69 6E 61 74 69 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01110010 01100101 01101111 01110010 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0072 0065 006F 0072 0064 0069 006E 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50847181847075806786758180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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