predestination (c.1200)

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predestination (c.1200)

[ gdw]

[ FEW: 9,288a praedestinare; Gdf: ; GdfC: 10,402a predestination; TL: 7,1705 predestinacïon; DEAF:  predestiner (predestination); DMF:  prédestination; TLF:  prédestination; OED:  predestination n.; MED:  predestinacioun n.; DMLBS: 2394a praedestinatio ]
predestinatiun  

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1theol.predestination, God’s preordaining of an individual’s fate after death
( c.1200; MS: s.xiiiin )  As petiz est dunee predestinatiun par gregeted de mort, as plus escreuz par travails  58.31
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  par itant porron savoir Que Deu nos vot mostrer por voir Que sa predestination Aemplie est par oreison  2271
( s.xiv1; MS: s.xivm )  ceux [...] poent prier Nostre Seygnour q’il change sa sentence et q’il esparnie par misericorde ceux q’il poeyt dampner par dreit; et ceo peot il bien fere santz tort fere a sa predestination. Kar nule chose n’est ici predestiné qi ne pourra estre altrement si Dieux le vorra ordiner  9.64
predestiner 
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predestination