foredoom
English
Etymology
From fore- + doom. Compare foredeem.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɔːduːm/ (noun), IPA(key): /fɔːˈduːm/ (verb)
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Noun
foredoom (uncountable)
- A doom that is predicted; destiny.
Hypernyms
- doom
Translations
A doom that is predicted
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Verb
foredoom (third-person singular simple present foredooms, present participle foredooming, simple past and past participle foredoomed)
- (transitive) To predestine to a doom.
- 1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state.
- 1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Chessmen of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2010:
- To search for Tara of Helium in the vast, dim labyrinth of the pits of O-Tar seemed to the Gatholian a hopeless quest, foredoomed to failure.
- 1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, The Folio Society, published 2010, page 35:
- They appeared, upon the surface, to possess all the qualities which were likely to recommend them to the fashionable society of the day; but their mission was foredoomed to failure.
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Related terms
- foredeem
Translations
To predestine a doom
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