What's the difference between destiny and foredoom?

Destiny


Definition:

  • (n.) That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.
  • (n.) The fixed order of things; invincible necessity; fate; a resistless power or agency conceived of as determining the future, whether in general or of an individual.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
  • (2) Destiny is an experience we’ve wanted to explore for many years, but maybe didn’t have the bandwidth, the technology, the expertise, the critical mass to get it done.” Art and inspiration While engineers were working on the logistics of constructing one seamless online galaxy for players to explore and meet in, the 14-person concept art team was beginning to sketch out the look of the world.
  • (3) "These are just the women I know, I estimate that at least 40 to 50 other women are waiting for the same destiny in Iran right now," she said.
  • (4) The new Poles are generally optimistic and open-minded, believing their destiny to be in their own hands, that Poland shouldn't be prisoner to its past and that the future waxes bright for their country.
  • (5) Destiny wants to change the way we think about online gaming – whether it succeeds or not will be down to the capability of its server network and whether there is really enough in there to keep gamers coming back.
  • (6) "They have come to believe in their exclusivity and exceptionalism, that they can decide the destinies of the world, that only they can ever be right."
  • (7) "The destiny you seek lies in Europe," McCain told the crowd, to rapturous applause.
  • (8) Les Misérables is a game with destiny: it dramatises the gap between the imperfections of human judgments, and the perfect patterns of the infinite.
  • (9) He says it is not for him to say what Russia should do but “it can not be indifferent to the destiny of such a big partner as Ukraine”.
  • (10) President Bush and Mrs Bush, Governor Bentley, members of Congress, Mayor Evans, Reverend Strong, friends and fellow Americans: There are places and moments in America where this nation’s destiny has been decided.
  • (11) We were forming a new legal entity, rebranding ourselves with a far improved voting structure where we could be master of our own destiny.
  • (12) But it is much more than a business; it is an institution; it reflects and it influences the life of a whole community; it may affect even wider destinies.
  • (13) That night, Weah borrowed from a Ronald Reagan script in promising supporters 'a rendezvous with destiny'.
  • (14) Also the frequent epidemiological observation on the presence of both such agents and the HIV in AIDS patients allowed the authors to speculate on the probable important role of a cohort of co-factors which determine the destiny of such individuals.
  • (15) As we show the UK is once again open to the world and united in our new destiny, so we will expand our horizons,” she said.
  • (16) I'm getting ready for that, preparing in case it is my destiny," she said in an interview at her office in Brasilia.
  • (17) The parties of the elite have to locate "aspiration" as an individual trait with success as its manifest destiny.
  • (18) The ecological destiny of resistant bacterial populations suggests the role of other factors than antibiotic resistance: characters of a particular host, host-plasmid relationship and properties which may lead to survival and adaptation in a given niche.
  • (19) ActionAid says that if multinationals, many of which are respectable in other ways, such as ABF, paid the full tax on their economic activity in developing countries, then countries such as Zambia could truly be in control of their own destinies.
  • (20) As national Tea Party founding member Debbie Dooley puts it : “This is about the freedom to choose and create your own electricity.” Polls show that even people who doubt the climate is changing instinctively understand the pleasure of controlling their own energy destiny.

Foredoom


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To doom beforehand; to predestinate.
  • (n.) Doom or sentence decreed in advance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are five universal exigencies of being human, against which a person's existence can be evaluated: pairbondage, troopbondage, abidance, ycleptance, and foredoomance.

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