Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To doom or pass sentence upon beforehand; condemn beforehand.
- To predestinate; foreordain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To foredoom.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To determine someone's
fate inadvance
Etymologies
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pre- + doom
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Examples
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The world with its injustices, its golden brutalities, and dull yellow guineas, is a disgust to such souls: the ray of Heaven that is in them does at least predoom them to be very miserable here.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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