foredoom

From fore- +‎ doom. Compare foredeem.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːduːm/ (noun), IPA^(key): /fɔːˈduːm/ (verb)

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foredoom (uncountable)

1. A doom that is predicted; destiny.

• doom

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

1. (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:

     Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state.

   • 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois, chapter 2, in The Souls of Black Folk, 2nd edition, page 28:

     […] but when to the inherent difficulties of so delicate and nice a social operation were added the spite and hate of conflict, the hell of war; when suspicion and cruelty were rife, and gaunt Hunger wept beside Bereavement,—in such a case, the work of any instrument of social regeneration was in large part foredoomed to failure.

   • 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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