Jansenist
- a word derived from Jansenism.
Example Sentences
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Like most fervent Euroskeptics, he also has a Jansenist clarity.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 10, 2018
So did Jansenist Catholics, who adhered to a puritanical view of man's depravity.
From Time Magazine Archive
After 1653 this dispute turned on the question of whether the five Jansenist propositions condemned by the pope as heretical were or were not to be found in Jansen’s Augustinus.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Perhaps it was the old Jansenist antiscience creed that was building up in him, but for whatever the reason, Pascal’s newfound devotion led him to abandon mathematics and science altogether.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
To grasp this point one only has to think of Pascal and Newton, the first a Jansenist and the second an Arian.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
