foredoom

English

Etymology

From fore- +‎ doom. Compare foredeem.

Noun

foredoom (uncountable)

A doom that is predicted; destiny

Translations

A doom that is predicted

Dutch: noodlot (nl), fataliteit (nl)

French: destin (fr) m, fatalité (fr) f

Verb

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

(transitive) To predestine to a doom.
- Dryden
  Thou art foredoomed to view the Stygian state.
- 1922, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Chessmen of Mars^[1], edition HTML, 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.