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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PREDETERMINA'TION, n. [See Predetermine.]
1. Previous determination; purpose formed beforehand; as the predetermination of God's will.
2. Premotion; that concurrence of God which determines men in their actions.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (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) [syn: predestination, foreordination, preordination, predetermination]
2: a mental determination or resolve in advance; an antecedent intention to do something; "he entered the argument with a predetermination to prove me wrong"
3: the act of determining or ordaining in advance what is to take place

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1647 1. the act of predetermining ; the state of being predetermined: as a. the ordaining of events beforehand b. a fixing or settling in advance 2. a purpose formed beforehand

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Predetermination Pre`de*ter`mi*na"tion, n. [Cf. F. pr['e]d['e]termination.] The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. --Hammond.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. See predestination.

Moby Thesaurus

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