定命 — meaning in English
dìng mìng
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English meaning
- predestination noun The Christian doctrine that God has decided in advance who will be saved, so that a person's eternal fate is settled by divine choice rather than earned by their own actions.
Senses
定命 is used for these senses in English:
- predestination (theology) The doctrine that everything has been foreordained by God or by fate.
predestination — full definition
- noun The Christian doctrine that God has decided in advance who will be saved, so that a person's eternal fate is settled by divine choice rather than earned by their own actions.
- noun More broadly, the belief that everything that happens has been fixed in advance by God or by fate.