preordination

Meanings

Plural: preordinations

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)
• The state or process of things being preordained.

Adj

• Before ordination.

Synonyms

chance, destin, destiny, doom, fatality, fate, foredoom, foreordination, fortune, kismet, lot, orlay, portion, predestination, predestiny, predetermination, preordination, qadar, weird, wyrd

Related Words

coordinate, coordination, foreordination, insubordination, ordain, order, ordinal, ordinance, ordinary, ordinate, ordination, ordnance, ordo, postordination, reordination, subordinate, subordination, superordination