Definition of "foredoom" []

• To doom or condemn beforehand. (verb-transitive)

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• "They must be of the style prevalent at the date of the play; Colonial clothes in a Mid-Victorian setting foredoom the play to failure."
• "It is impossible that God can love the whole world, and yet foredoom millions to be lost."
• "There is no halfway business of ghastly wounds which foredoom survival as a cripple."