Example sentences for: ordained

How can you use “ordained” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This custom suggests new stages in the old rebellion against religious strictures, which once demanded that female hair--divinely ordained to be long and seductive--be covered up lest it incite lust.

  • For a "multiracial" box would be an admission that the five points of our modern-day "ethno-racial pentagon" (black, white, Asian, Hispanic, Native American) are not fixed or divinely ordained, but fickle and all too man-made.

  • It was an ordained priest who took relativity to its logical conclusion.

  • How people will react to particular circumstances is not ordained at birth.

  • Darby put his eyes too close to the Scripture pages and decided that history, past and future, was a series of "dispensations": divinely ordained historical epochs in which the Chosen People had been and would be tested and found wanting by God, always leading to the next dispensation.


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