Meanings
- not comparableDetermining beforehand; predestinating.
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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 […]
1830, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on The Pilgrim's Progress
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