predestination

The act of predestining or the condition of being predestined.

The doctrine that God has foreordained all things, especially that God has elected certain souls to eternal salvation.

The divine decree foreordaining all souls to either salvation or damnation.

The act of God foreordaining all things gone before and to come.

Destiny; fate.

The act of predestinating, or the state of being predestinated; fate; specifically, in theology, the decree or purpose of God, by which he has from eternity immutably determined whatever comes to pass; in a more restricted sense, the decree by which men are destined to everlasting happiness or misery; in the most restricted sense, predestination to eternal life, or election (the correlative doctrine that God has predestined some to everlasting death is termed reprobation). See predestinate, v. t.

Synonyms Foreordination, predetermination.

The act of predestinating.

The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. See Calvinism.