Exact Match:
- predestination
- (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind)
- previous determination as if by destiny or fate
Synonyms:
- absolute certainty,
- absoluteness,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- certain knowledge,
- certainness,
- certainty,
- certitude,
- dead certainty,
- decree,
- definiteness,
- destiny,
- determinacy,
- determinateness,
- doom,
- fate,
- foredestiny,
- foregone conclusion,
- foreknowledge,
- foreordination,
- fortune,
- future,
- ineluctability,
- inerrability,
- inerrancy,
- inevitability,
- infallibilism,
- infallibility,
- karma,
- kismet,
- lot,
- necessity,
- nonambiguity,
- noncontingency,
- positiveness,
- predetermination,
- preordination,
- prescience,
- probatum,
- proved fact,
- sureness,
- surety,
- truth,
- unambiguity,
- unequivocalness,
- univocity,
- unmistakableness
Related Words:
- apprehension,
- clairvoyance,
- command,
- comprehension,
- conception,
- conceptualization,
- decree,
- foreboding,
- foredestiny,
- foregone conclusion,
- foreknowing,
- foreordination,
- foreseeability,
- forewisdom,
- grasp,
- grip,
- ideation,
- intellection,
- intelligence,
- mastery,
- mental grasp,
- necessity,
- precognition,
- predestination,
- predetermination,
- prehension,
- preordination,
- presage,
- prescience,
- presentiment,
- savvy,
- understanding,
- wisdom
- infallibility
collapse - the quality of never making an error related words >
- absolute certainty,
- absoluteness,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- certain knowledge,
- certainness,
- certainty,
- certitude,
- chastity,
- dead certainty,
- defectlessness,
- definiteness,
- determinacy,
- determinateness,
- faultlessness,
- finish,
- flawlessness,
- immaculateness,
- impeccability,
- ineluctability,
- inerrability,
- inerrancy,
- inevitability,
- infallibilism,
- necessity,
- nonambiguity,
- noncontingency,
- perfection,
- positiveness,
- predestination,
- predetermination,
- probatum,
- proved fact,
- purity,
- sinlessness,
- spotlessness,
- stainlessness,
- sureness,
- surety,
- taintlessness,
- truth,
- unambiguity,
- unequivocalness,
- univocity,
- unmistakableness
- predetermination
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- the act of determining or ordaining in advance what is to take place related words >
- absolute certainty,
- absoluteness,
- act of God,
- aforethought,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- calculatedness,
- calculation,
- certain knowledge,
- certainness,
- certainty,
- certitude,
- dead certainty,
- definiteness,
- deliberateness,
- deliberation,
- determinacy,
- determinateness,
- express intention,
- expressness,
- fate,
- fatefulness,
- force majeure,
- forejudgment,
- forethought,
- indefeasibility,
- ineluctability,
- inerrability,
- inerrancy,
- inescapableness,
- inevasibleness,
- inevitability,
- inevitable accident,
- inevitableness,
- inexorability,
- infallibilism,
- infallibility,
- inflexibility,
- intentionality,
- irrevocability,
- necessity,
- nonambiguity,
- noncontingency,
- parti pris,
- positiveness,
- preapprehension,
- preconception,
- preconclusion,
- preconsideration,
- predecision,
- predeliberation,
- predestination,
- predilection,
- predisposition,
- prejudgment,
- prejudication,
- prejudice,
- premature judgment,
- premeditation,
- prenotion,
- prepossession,
- preresolution,
- presumption,
- presupposal,
- presupposition,
- presurmise,
- probatum,
- proved fact,
- relentlessness,
- sureness,
- surety,
- truth,
- unambiguity,
- unavoidable casualty,
- unavoidableness,
- uncontrollability,
- undeflectability,
- unequivocalness,
- univocity,
- unmistakableness,
- unpreventability,
- unyieldingness,
- vis major
- truth
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- a fact that has been verified; "at last he knew the truth"; "the truth is that he didn't want to do it"
- a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it"
- United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)
- conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities" related words >
- a priori truth,
- absolute certainty,
- absolute credibility,
- absoluteness,
- accomplished fact,
- accuracy,
- actuality,
- actually,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- authenticity,
- axiom,
- brocard,
- candor,
- certain knowledge,
- certainness,
- certainty,
- certitude,
- correctness,
- credibility,
- dead certainty,
- definiteness,
- determinacy,
- determinateness,
- dictate,
- dictum,
- fact,
- facts,
- factuality,
- fait accompli,
- formula,
- genuineness,
- golden rule,
- gospel,
- grim reality,
- historicity,
- in fact,
- in truth,
- ineluctability,
- inerrability,
- inerrancy,
- inevitability,
- infallibilism,
- infallibility,
- law,
- necessity,
- nonambiguity,
- noncontingency,
- not a dream,
- objective existence,
- positiveness,
- postulate,
- precision,
- predestination,
- predetermination,
- principium,
- principle,
- probatum,
- proposition,
- proved fact,
- reality,
- really,
- rightness,
- rule,
- self-evident truth,
- settled principle,
- sureness,
- surety,
- theorem,
- trueness,
- truism,
- truly,
- truth-loving,
- truth-speaking,
- truth-telling,
- truthfulness,
- unambiguity,
- unequivocalness,
- universal truth,
- univocity,
- unmistakableness,
- veraciousness,
- veracity,
- veridicality,
- verity
- inevitability
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- the quality of being unavoidable related words >
- Friday,
- Friday the thirteenth,
- absolute certainty,
- absoluteness,
- act of God,
- appointed lot,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- astral influences,
- astrology,
- book of fate,
- certain knowledge,
- certainness,
- certainty,
- certitude,
- coaction,
- compulsion,
- compulsiveness,
- constellation,
- constraint,
- cup,
- dead certainty,
- definiteness,
- destination,
- destiny,
- determinacy,
- determinateness,
- dies funestis,
- doom,
- end,
- enforcement,
- fatality,
- fate,
- fatefulness,
- force majeure,
- forcing,
- foredoom,
- fortune,
- future,
- ides of March,
- indefeasibility,
- ineluctability,
- inerrability,
- inerrancy,
- inescapableness,
- inevasibleness,
- inevitable accident,
- inevitableness,
- inexorability,
- infallibilism,
- infallibility,
- inflexibility,
- irresistibility,
- irrevocability,
- kismet,
- lot,
- moira,
- necessity,
- nonambiguity,
- noncontingency,
- obligation,
- obligement,
- planets,
- portion,
- positiveness,
- predestination,
- predetermination,
- probatum,
- proved fact,
- relentlessness,
- restraint,
- stars,
- sureness,
- surety,
- truth,
- unambiguity,
- unavoidable casualty,
- unavoidableness,
- uncontrollability,
- undeflectability,
- unequivocalness,
- univocity,
- unlucky day,
- unmistakableness,
- unpreventability,
- unyieldingness,
- vis major,
- weird,
- wheel of fortune,
- will of Heaven
- sureness
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- the quality of being steady and unfailing; "sureness of hand" related words >
- absolute certainty,
- absoluteness,
- acceptation,
- acception,
- acquiescence,
- act of God,
- arrogance,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- belief,
- certain knowledge,
- certainness,
- certainty,
- certitude,
- cocksureness,
- confidence,
- confidentness,
- conviction,
- courage,
- credence,
- credit,
- credulity,
- dead certainty,
- definiteness,
- dependability,
- dependence,
- determinacy,
- determinateness,
- faith,
- faithworthiness,
- fate,
- fatefulness,
- force majeure,
- hope,
- hubris,
- incorruptibility,
- indefeasibility,
- ineluctability,
- inerrability,
- inerrancy,
- inescapableness,
- inevasibleness,
- inevitability,
- inevitable accident,
- inevitableness,
- inexorability,
- infallibilism,
- infallibility,
- inflexibility,
- inviolability,
- irrevocability,
- necessity,
- nonambiguity,
- noncontingency,
- overconfidence,
- oversureness,
- overweening,
- overweeningness,
- poise,
- pomposity,
- positiveness,
- predestination,
- predetermination,
- pride,
- probatum,
- proved fact,
- reception,
- relentlessness,
- reliability,
- reliance,
- reliance on,
- responsibility,
- security,
- self-assurance,
- self-confidence,
- self-importance,
- self-reliance,
- settled belief,
- stock,
- store,
- subjective certainty,
- surety,
- suspension of disbelief,
- trust,
- trustability,
- trustiness,
- trustworthiness,
- truth,
- unambiguity,
- unavoidable casualty,
- unavoidableness,
- uncontrollability,
- undeflectability,
- unequivocalness,
- unfalseness,
- univocity,
- unmistakableness,
- unperfidiousness,
- unpreventability,
- untreacherousness,
- unyieldingness,
- vis major
- surety
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- something clearly established related words >
- absolute certainty,
- absoluteness,
- acceptation,
- acception,
- acquiescence,
- angel,
- arrogance,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- backer,
- bail,
- bailsman,
- belief,
- bond,
- bondsman,
- certain knowledge,
- certainness,
- certainty,
- certitude,
- clear sailing,
- cocksureness,
- confidence,
- confidentness,
- conviction,
- courage,
- credence,
- credit,
- credulity,
- dead certainty,
- definiteness,
- dependence,
- determinacy,
- determinateness,
- earnest,
- earnest money,
- escrow,
- faith,
- gage,
- godfather,
- godparent,
- guarantee,
- guarantor,
- guaranty,
- handsel,
- harmlessness,
- hock,
- hope,
- hostage,
- hubris,
- immunity,
- indemnity,
- ineluctability,
- inerrability,
- inerrancy,
- inevitability,
- infallibilism,
- infallibility,
- insurance,
- insurer,
- invulnerability,
- mainpernor,
- mainprise,
- mortgagor,
- necessity,
- nonambiguity,
- noncontingency,
- overconfidence,
- oversureness,
- overweening,
- overweeningness,
- patron,
- pawn,
- pignus,
- pledge,
- poise,
- pomposity,
- positiveness,
- predestination,
- predetermination,
- pride,
- probatum,
- protection,
- proved fact,
- reception,
- recognizance,
- reliance,
- reliance on,
- replevin,
- replevy,
- risklessness,
- safeguard,
- safeness,
- safety,
- security,
- self-assurance,
- self-confidence,
- self-importance,
- self-reliance,
- settled belief,
- sponsor,
- stock,
- stocks and bonds,
- store,
- subjective certainty,
- sureness,
- suspension of disbelief,
- tie,
- token payment,
- trust,
- truth,
- unambiguity,
- undertaking,
- underwriter,
- unequivocalness,
- univocity,
- unmistakableness,
- vadimonium,
- vadium,
- warrant,
- warrantor,
- warranty
- necessity
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- anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
- the condition of being essential or indispensable related words >
- absolute certainty,
- absoluteness,
- act of God,
- assurance,
- assuredness,
- bare cupboard,
- bare necessities,
- bare subsistence,
- beggarliness,
- beggary,
- call,
- call for,
- cause,
- certain knowledge,
- certainness,
- certainty,
- certitude,
- coaction,
- coercion,
- compulsion,
- compulsiveness,
- condition,
- constraint,
- dead certainty,
- decree,
- definiteness,
- demand,
- demand for,
- deprivation,
- desideration,
- desideratum,
- destitution,
- determinacy,
- determinateness,
- duress,
- empty purse,
- enforcement,
- essential,
- essentials,
- exigency,
- fate,
- fatefulness,
- force majeure,
- forcing,
- foredestiny,
- foregone conclusion,
- foreknowledge,
- foreordination,
- grinding poverty,
- gripe,
- hand-to-mouth existence,
- homelessness,
- impoverishment,
- indefeasibility,
- indigence,
- indispensable,
- indispensableness,
- ineluctability,
- inerrability,
- inerrancy,
- inescapableness,
- inevasibleness,
- inevitability,
- inevitable accident,
- inevitableness,
- inexorability,
- infallibilism,
- infallibility,
- inflexibility,
- irresistibility,
- irrevocability,
- lack,
- mendicancy,
- moneylessness,
- must,
- must item,
- necessaries,
- necessities,
- necessitousness,
- need,
- need for,
- needfulness,
- neediness,
- nonambiguity,
- noncontingency,
- obligation,
- obligement,
- occasion,
- pauperism,
- pauperization,
- penury,
- pinch,
- positiveness,
- predestination,
- predetermination,
- preordination,
- prerequirement,
- prerequisite,
- prescience,
- privation,
- probatum,
- proved fact,
- relentlessness,
- requirement,
- requisite,
- requisiteness,
- requisition,
- restraint,
- sine qua non,
- sureness,
- surety,
- the necessary,
- the needful,
- truth,
- unambiguity,
- unavoidable casualty,
- unavoidableness,
- uncontrollability,
- undeflectability,
- unequivocalness,
- univocity,
- unmistakableness,
- unpreventability,
- unyieldingness,
- vis major,
- want
- decree
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- a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
- issue a decree; "The King only can decree" related words >
- act,
- act on,
- action,
- adjudge,
- announcement,
- appointment,
- authorize,
- award,
- behest,
- bid,
- bidding,
- bill,
- brevet,
- bull,
- bylaw,
- call on,
- call the signals,
- call upon,
- canon,
- charge,
- charging,
- choose,
- choose to,
- command,
- commission,
- compel,
- condemn,
- condemnation,
- consideration,
- constitute,
- constrain,
- decide,
- decision,
- declaration,
- declare,
- declare lawful,
- decree-law,
- decreement,
- decretal,
- decretum,
- deliverance,
- demand,
- desire,
- determination,
- determine,
- diagnosis,
- dictate,
- dictation,
- dictum,
- diktat,
- direct,
- direction,
- directive,
- doom,
- edict,
- edictum,
- enact,
- enact laws,
- enactment,
- enjoin,
- establish,
- fiat,
- filibuster,
- find,
- find against,
- find for,
- finding,
- force,
- foredestiny,
- foregone conclusion,
- foreknowledge,
- foreordination,
- form,
- formality,
- formula,
- formulary,
- formulate,
- get the floor,
- give an order,
- give the word,
- have the floor,
- impose,
- injunction,
- institution,
- instruct,
- instruction,
- ipse dixit,
- issue a command,
- issue a writ,
- judgement,
- jus,
- kill,
- law,
- lay down,
- legalize,
- legislate,
- legislation,
- legitimate,
- legitimatize,
- legitimize,
- lex,
- lobby through,
- logroll,
- make a regulation,
- make legal,
- mandate,
- manifesto,
- measure,
- necessity,
- oblige,
- ordain,
- order,
- order about,
- ordinance,
- ordonnance,
- pass,
- pass judgment,
- pass sentence,
- pigeonhole,
- pocket,
- precedent,
- precept,
- predestination,
- predetermination,
- preordination,
- prescience,
- prescribe,
- prescript,
- prescription,
- proclaim,
- proclamation,
- prognosis,
- promulgate,
- promulgation,
- pronounce,
- pronounce judgment,
- pronounce on,
- pronouncement,
- pronunciamento,
- put in force,
- put through,
- railroad through,
- regulate,
- regulation,
- report,
- require,
- rescript,
- resolution,
- resolve,
- return a verdict,
- roll logs,
- rubric,
- rule,
- ruling,
- sanction,
- say the word,
- see fit,
- senatus consult,
- senatus consultum,
- sentence,
- set,
- standing order,
- statute,
- table,
- take the floor,
- think fit,
- think good,
- think proper,
- ukase,
- utter a judgment,
- validate,
- verdict,
- veto,
- will,
- wish,
- yield the floor
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