Jansenism
noun
the doctrinal system of Cornelis Jansen and his followers, denying free will and maintaining that human nature is corrupt and that Christ died for the elect and not for all humanity.
Jansenistical
-
a word derived from
Jansenism.
Example Sentences
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I kept looking ahead, however, as I was reading, in case there was anything too Jansenistical in it.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 by Robert Black
