| Predestination 1. (n.) The act of predestinating. 2. (n.) The purpose of Good from eternity respecting all events; especially, the preordination of men to everlasting happiness or misery. See Calvinism. Thesaurus Entries absolute certainty, absoluteness, assurance, assuredness, certain knowledge, certainness, certainty, certitude, dead certainty, decree, definiteness, destiny, determinacy, determinateness, doom, fate, foredestiny, foregone conclusion, foreknowledge, foreordination, fortune, future, ineluctability, inerrability, inerrancy, inevitability, infallibilism, infallibility, karma, kismet, lot, necessity, nonambiguity, noncontingency, positiveness, predetermination, preordination, prescience, probatum, proved fact, sureness, surety, truth, unambiguity, unequivocalness, univocity, unmistakableness |