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  • verb Present participle of foredoom.

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  • Error, however, like disease, is not easily eradicated; but as men get better acquainted with God, those dark and heathenish conceptions regarding him entertained by Calvinists, such as the foredooming of children and men to endless misery, will give place to nobler thoughts of the Author of our being.

    The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election Robert Wallace

  • As far, therefore, as the word is concerned, there is not the most distant support given to the doctrine of an eternal decree foredooming millions of men to hopeless misery.

    The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election Robert Wallace

  • What, (though but feebly felt and dimly seen) -- what do we yet owe to Thee if Knowledge be now a Power; if MIND be a Prophet and a Fate, foretelling and foredooming the things to come!

    Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • If recovery, cyclical though it would be, is at hand Obama will receive credit, foredooming the Republican nominee.

    Forbes.com: News Ralph Benko 2012

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