predestinative

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ destinative

Adjective

predestinative (not comparable)

  1. Determining beforehand; predestinating.
    • 1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on The Pilgrim's Progress:
      The predestinative force of a free agent's own will in certain absolute acts, determinations, or elections, and in respect of which acts it is one either with the divine or the devilish will; and if the former, the conclusions to be drawn from God's goodness, faithfulness, and spiritual presence; these supply grounds of argument of a very different character […]
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