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Foreordained Definition & Meaning

foreordained
adjective
  1. established or prearranged unalterably; "his place in history was foreordained"; "a sense of predestinate inevitability about it"; "it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world"

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What does foreordained mean?
established or prearranged unalterably; "his place in history was foreordained"; "a sense of predestinate inevitability about it"; "it seemed predestined since the beginning of the world"
What part of speech is foreordained?
Foreordained is an adjective.

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