Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to predestination.
- adjective Believing in or based on the doctrine of predestination.
- noun One who believes in the doctrine of predestination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Believing in the doctrine of predestination.
- Of or pertaining to predestination.
- noun One who believes in the doctrine of predestination.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who believes in or supports the doctrine of predestination.
- adjective Of or pertaining to predestination.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who believes in
predestination .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to predestination; holding the doctrine of predestination
- noun anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny
Etymologies
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Examples
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This Dobson critter is a religious determinist, specifically, a variant of a Calvinist predestinarian (John Calvin, 16th Century Protestant theologian; a Protestant when being a Protestant could get you burned at the stake).
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A Calvinist predestinarian and believer in the Second Coming, Absalom was a justified sinner who found his alter ego in Ma.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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A Calvinist predestinarian and believer in the Second Coming, Absalom was a justified sinner who found his alter ego in Ma.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA Hilary Spurling 2010
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They were militant predestinarian Baptists, severe in their religion and intolerant of people who did not believe as they did.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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When incorporated into Christian doctrines of election, this Greek notion, Rawls claims, has led to “many harsh predestinarian conclusions” (160).
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Pastor Rick Warren's best-selling "The Purpose Driven Life" is suffused with predestinarian themes, repackaged as a gentler divine providence.
Highway To Heaven Marc Arkin 2009
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A lot of people who recoil from absolute predestinationism seem to believe in such a God—perhaps because he is not arbitrary like the predestinarian, but more closely matches our natural ideas about justice.
Advent discipline: the right atheism Mike L 2007
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A lot of people who recoil from absolute predestinationism seem to believe in such a God—perhaps because he is not arbitrary like the predestinarian, but more closely matches our natural ideas about justice.
Archive 2007-12-01 Mike L 2007
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Jansenist, mainly out of political hatred of the Jesuits, partly from a hostility, very easily explained, to every manifestation of ultramontane feeling and influence, partly from a professional jealousy of the clergy, but partly also because the austere predestinarian dogma, and the metaphysical theology which brought it into supreme prominence, seem often to have had an unexplained affinity for serious minds trained in legal ideas and their application.
Voltaire 2007
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Augustine as well as contemporary movements in phi - losophy encouraged — Wycliffe ran to predestinarian views which were calculated to lessen the role of church offices in the work of salvation.
CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968
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