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Where does “predestine” come from?

predestine (English) comes from Old French prédestiner, from Latin praedestināre.

predestine (English): To determine the future or the fate of something...

Definitions

  1. To determine the future or the fate of something...

Ancestry of “predestine”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchprédestiner—
2Latinpraedestināre—

Words derived from “predestine”

  • predestinarian
  • predestinarianism
  • antipredestinarian
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