preordination

1. 1.

   (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)

   Synonymspredestinationforeordinationpredetermination

   Broadertheological doctrine

   Narrowerelection

   theology

Other forms of preordination

plural

preordinations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about preordination

What does preordination mean?

preordination means "(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)".

How many syllables are in preordination?

preordination has 6 syllables: pre-or-di-na-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for preordination?

Close synonyms include predestination, foreordination, predetermination. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is preordination a common word?

preordination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.