necessitarian
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of necessitarian
First recorded in 1790–1800; necessit(y) + -arian
Example Sentences
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His letters show that he was not an opportunist but a confessed "necessitarian."
From Time Magazine Archive
Collins was a pronounced necessitarian; Morgan regarded the denial of free will as tantamount to atheism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
Why, if the will is not distinguished from the affections, we shall have the will acting upon itself; a doctrine to which the necessitarian will not listen for a moment.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
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.
From Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification by Bradlaugh, Charles
The necessitarian may be an optimist of a high order.
From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip
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