Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Calvin, or to Calvinism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Calvin, or Calvinism; following Calvin; accepting or Teaching Calvinism.
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- adjective Alternative form of
Calvinist .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Calvinism or its adherents
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Examples
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Everywhere else, certainly, there is the note which I have called Calvinistic; especially in the predestined passion of Tattycoram or the incurable cruelty of
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens 1905
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It is as hard to contend in argument against "the oligarchy of heaven," as Motley calls the Calvinistic party, as it was formerly to strive with them in arms.
John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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It is as hard to contend in argument against "the oligarchy of heaven," as Motley calls the Calvinistic party, as it was formerly to strive with them in arms.
John Lothrop Motley. a memoir — Volume 3 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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It is as hard to contend in argument against "the oligarchy of heaven," as Motley calls the Calvinistic party, as it was formerly to strive with them in arms.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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It is as hard to contend in argument against "the oligarchy of heaven," as Motley calls the Calvinistic party, as it was formerly to strive with them in arms.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Many gracious persons (for many such I am persuaded there are) who differ from me, more or less, in those points which are called Calvinistic, appear desirous that the Calvinists should, for their sakes, studiously avoid every expression which they cannot approve.
Olney Hymns 1779
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If you mean "Calvinistic," no woman could ever be such, for Calvinism is logic, and no woman worth the name could ever live by syllogisms.
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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"Calvinistic" chain of events, but this is just an illusion.
Brad Ideas - Comments Mark Aaron Polger 2009
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"Calvinistic" chain of events, but this is just an illusion.
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Calvinist of the present day to produce an author prior to Augustine who maintained what are now called Calvinistic opinions "(Preface
The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election Robert Wallace
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