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  • 11foredoom — v. a. Predestine, foreordain, preordain, doom beforehand …

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  • 12foredoom — fore•doom v. [[t]fɔrˈdum, foʊr [/t]] n. [[t]ˈfɔrˌdum, ˈfoʊr [/t]] v. t. 1) to doom beforehand; destine 2) archaic a doom ordained beforehand; destiny • Etymology: 1555–65 …

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  • 13foredoom — verb (t) /fɔˈdum/ (say faw doohm) 1. to doom beforehand. –noun /ˈfɔdum/ (say fawdoohm) 2. a doom ordained beforehand …

  • 14foredoom — v.tr. (often foll. by to) doom or condemn beforehand …

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  • 15necessity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. need (see necessity); compulsion; poverty. II What must happen Nouns 1. necessity, necessitation, obligation, compulsion, subjection; needfulness, essentiality, indispensability; dire or cruel… …

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  • 16Necessity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Necessity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 involuntariness involuntariness Sgm: N 1 instinct instinct blind impulse Sgm: N 1 inborn proclivity inborn proclivity innate proclivity Sgm: N 1 native tendency native tendency… …

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  • 17doom — n 1.(all usu. of an adverse nature) fate, fortune, destiny, lot, cup, portion, die, Archaic. foredoom, Chiefly Scot. weird, Brit. Inf. cup of tea; karma, kismet, Obs. destin. 2. ruin, ruination, rack and ruin, destruction, dissolution, extinction …

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  • 18fate — n 1. fortune, lot, cup, portion, die, doom, Archaic. foredoom, Chiefly Scot. weird, Brit. Inf. cup of tea, writing on the wall; destiny, karma, kismet, predetermination, predestination, God s will, Fortune s wheel, wheel of fortune, whatever… …

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  • 19predestination — n 1. predetermination, preordination, predeliberation, preelection, foreordination, foreordainment, foredoom; predetermining, preordaining, preordinating, predeliberating. 2. fate, fortune, lot, cup, portion, die, doom, Archaic. foredoom, Chiefly …

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  • 20Foredeem — Fore*deem , v. i. [Cf. {Foredoom}.] To know or discover beforehand; to foretell. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Which [maid] could guess and foredeem of things past, present, and to come. Genevan Test. [1913 Webster] …

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