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predetermined

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1. predetermined - Adjective

2. predetermined - Verb

4. predetermined - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Predetermine

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. Stephen Hawking

We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions -- love, antipathy, charity, or malice -- and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals. Milan Kundera

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand? Alan Moore

Human beings are emotional amoral egoists, driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated, some predetermined for survival, others alterable. Nayef Al-Rodhan

When a lady does consent to listen to an argument against her own opinions, she is always predetermined to withstand it - to listen only with her bodily ears, keeping the mental organs resolutely closed against the strongest reasoning. Anne Brontë

The poem, even when it has some predetermined pattern, must be wrought to some effect or finish that justifies the exclamation: This is a poem! Herbert Read

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