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A doom that is predicted; destiny. examples
third-person singular simple present foredooms, present participle foredooming, simple past and past participle foredoomed
(transitive) To predestine to a doom. quotations examples
Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state.
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, […]
[…] 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.
1903, W. E. B. Du Bois, chapter 2, in The Souls of Black Folk, 2nd edition, page 28
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.
1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Chessmen of Mars, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2010
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.
1932, Duff Cooper, Talleyrand, The Folio Society, published 2010, page 35