English

Noun

foredoom ‎(uncountable)

1. A doom that is predicted; destiny.

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Verb

foredoom ‎(third-person singular simple present foredooms, present participle foredooming, simple past and past participle foredoomed)

1. (transitive) To predestine to a doom.
   • Dryden

     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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• foredeem