Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun foreordination

1 sense of foreordination

Sense 1
predestination, foreordination, preordination, predetermination -- ((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))
       => theological doctrine -- (the doctrine of a religious group)