predestination

About 0.77 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

foreordination preordination predetermination predestinationism predestiny predestinationist providentialism predestinarian preordainment predestinator

Often followed by

and is of to in was as or which

Word family

predestinations