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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

Greene's Jansenist mind�again in Milton's words�"can make a Hell of Heaven"; his stricken world suggests his fellow Catholic Francis Thompson's: For we are born in other's pain, And perish in our own.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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