necessitarian

[nuh-ses-i-tair-ee-uhn]

noun

1. a person who advocates or supports necessitarianism (libertarian ).

adjective

1. pertaining to necessitarians or necessitarianism.

Word History and Origins

Origin of necessitarian¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; necessit(y) + -arian

Example Sentences

The regularists are the heirs of the nominalists; the necessitarians of the Epicureans.

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That a worse “fatalism” is inculcated in the doctrine of a foreordaining and ever-directing providence, planning and controlling every one of the child’s actions, than ever was taught in necessitarian essays.

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Collins was a pronounced necessitarian; Morgan regarded the denial of free will as tantamount to atheism.

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He adopted and advocated the utilitarian and necessitarian theory of morals, and wrote of ordinary theism and religion, as arising from personification of unknown causes, for general or special phenomena.

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The necessitarian may be an optimist of a high order.

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