Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To doom or condemn beforehand.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To doom beforehand; predestinate.
- n. Previous doom or sentence.
Wiktionary
- n. A doom that is predicted; destiny
- v. To predestine a doom; to presage
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To doom beforehand; to predestinate.
- n. Doom or sentence decreed in advance.
WordNet 3.0
- v. doom beforehand
Etymologies
- From fore- + doom. Compare foredeem. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They must be of the style prevalent at the date of the play; Colonial clothes in a Mid-Victorian setting foredoom the play to failure.”
“It is impossible that God can love the whole world, and yet foredoom millions to be lost.”
“There is no halfway business of ghastly wounds which foredoom survival as a cripple.”
“Therefore racial heredity does not foredoom any people to remain in a low status of culture; only it must be taken into account in explaining the cultural conditions of all peoples, and especially in planning for a people's social amelioration.”
“To make his first experiment in maneuvering against such an expert in the science of war as Lee, would have been to foredoom himself to defeat.”
“She then did sow, and France nigh unto death foredoom.”
“It pleased the Lord," continued Mr. Jekyl, "to foredoom the race of Ham --”
Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. In Two Volumes. Vol. II
“The performers were anything but word perfect and hopelessly forgot or confused their business, which, more especially in a play of such a type as this romantic comedy so full of busy and complicated detail demanding close and continuous attention, was enough to mystify the audience completely and foredoom the piece to failure.”
“Vhen next he looks through Galilaeo's eyes; ind hence th 'egregious wizard fhall foredoom The fate of Louis, and the fall of Rome.”
Internet Archive: The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
“Here Britain's ftatefmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign Tyrants, and of Nymphs at home;”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘foredoom’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Misanthropic
Lovecraft, Lovecraftian, bete noire
Lovecraftian, bête noire, festinate, hathos, misogynist, foredoom, decorticate, malingerer, nemophilist, mendicant, pendragon, stultify and 27 more...
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Fore!
That great old English prefix, quaint almost by default!
foredoom, forename, foretoken, foremast, forebear, foresee, forecastle, forestay, foreskin, foretell, foreshadow, foreclose and 79 more...
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Brave New World
Words gathered while reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
penitente, pyrrhonic, ossuary, henry-georgian, kropotkinesque, scopolamine, bokanovsky, semi-moron, hypnopaedia, welfare-tyranny, fretsawyer, theremogene and 85 more...
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Accurst
Curses and spiritual warfare.
evil eye, diablerie, katadesmoi, voodoo doll, drishti, glamour, geis, shrap, hoodoo, jinx, curse, curse stone and 78 more...
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Ressalie's list
These are a few words that I have found to either sound strange or to be fairly useless.
bamboozle, brouhaha, codswallop, crapulence, donnybrook, flummox, fuddy-duddy, furbelow, hobbledehoy, hoosegow, inglenook, jackanapes and 45 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for foredoom.
madmouth cf. foretoken Jun 18, 2009