different between predestination vs predestine

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French predestination, from Late Latin praedestinatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?i.d?s.t??ne?.?en/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: pre?des?ti?na?tion

Noun

predestination (countable and uncountable, plural predestinations)

1. (theology) The doctrine that everything has been foreordained by God or by fate.
2. (Calvinism, specifically) The doctrine that certain people have been elected for salvation, and sometimes also that others are destined for reprobation.
3. Destiny or fate.

Related terms

• determinism
• predestinational

Translations

Old French

Noun

predestination f (oblique plural predestinations, nominative singular predestination, nominative plural predestinations)

1. predestination (doctrine that everything has been foreordained by a God, especially that certain people have been elected for salvation, with others destined for reprobation)

Swedish

Noun

predestination c

1. predestination

English

Etymology

From Old French prédestiner, from Medieval Latin praedestinare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?e?d?st?n/, IPA^(key): /p?i?d?st?n/
• Rhymes: -?st?n

Verb

predestine (third-person singular simple present predestines, present participle predestining, simple past and past participle predestined)

1. (transitive) To determine the future or the fate of something in advance; to preordain.
2. (theology, transitive) To foreordain by divine will.

Related terms

• destine
• predestination
• predestined

Translations

Anagrams

• diterpenes

Spanish

Verb

predestine

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of predestinar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of predestinar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of predestinar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of predestinar.