Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of predetermining; preordination; previous determination to a given course or end.
- noun The state of being previously determined; a state wherein each act or event is dependent upon antecedent conditions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
determining beforehand . - noun Something that has been
decided in advance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (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)
- noun a mental determination or resolve in advance; an antecedent intention to do something
- noun the act of determining or ordaining in advance what is to take place
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Examples
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It is also impossible that the result truly exists already at the time of the cause, as in the idea of predetermination, or that the result exists somehow inherently in the cause or in the aftermath of the cause, but in some unmanifest manner, and is just waiting for the right circumstances to pop out and appear.
Examining Karma Immediately after 9/11 ��� Session Three: The Laws and Varieties of Karma 2001
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I've only ever watched it here with theferrett and zoethe , but what strikes me about it is the credit sequence, the faded future photographs of people we watch living in the present, a kind of predetermination in sun damage.
Coke and 2030 yuki_onna 2009
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His book "De causâ Dei contra Pelagium" gave rise in Paris to disputes on Augustinian "predetermination," a word which, it had been thought, was invented by Banes in the sixteenth century.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Hummel said that court expressed a "predetermination" on the issue when it indicated that Polanski would have to appear at the hearing.
Variety.com 2009
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Such a predetermination makes the system seem highly unfair -- an impression further emphasized by the government publicly shopping for a venue where the prosecution is most likely to succeed.
Aitan Goelman: Time to Get it Right on Terror Trial Venues Aitan Goelman 2011
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Even with the removal of predetermination, there is still scope for a councillor to land themselves in large amounts of hot water through an inappropriate Tweet.
Localism bill could give councillors a license to Tweet 2011
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No such predetermination had been made for Libya, something that Kaddafi must surely have known.
Fallout Catherine Collins 2011
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Should the bill become enacted, the principle of predetermination, which stops councillors from expressing a point of view on an issue under council discussion, could be overturned.
Localism bill could give councillors a license to Tweet 2011
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Such a predetermination makes the system seem highly unfair -- an impression further emphasized by the government publicly shopping for a venue where the prosecution is most likely to succeed.
Aitan Goelman: Time to Get it Right on Terror Trial Venues Aitan Goelman 2011
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Such a predetermination makes the system seem highly unfair -- an impression further emphasized by the government publicly shopping for a venue where the prosecution is most likely to succeed.
Aitan Goelman: Time to Get it Right on Terror Trial Venues Aitan Goelman 2011
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