predestination Definition

1. The act of predestining or fact of being predestined.

Thesaurus: predetermination, foreordination, foreordainment, preordination, preordainment, fate, destiny, doom, fortune, karma, lot, portion.
2. relig.
The doctrine that whatever is to happen has been unalterably fixed by God from the beginning of time, especially with regard to which souls are to be saved and which damned.