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necessarian

American  
[nes-uh-sair-ee-uhn] / ˌnɛs əˈsɛər i ən /

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Etymology

Origin of necessarian

necessary + -an

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For those who begin with an absolute and omnipotent God, and work down from above, the necessarian position is determined.

From Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus Matthew Jones

But the philosophical necessarian does not grant this postulate.

From On Calvinism by William Hull

I thank you for these lines in the name of a necessarian, and for what follows in next paragraph, in the name of a child of fancy.

From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb

If he held the necessarian doctrine, he should have imparted it to her; for her question showed that she was capable of receiving it.

From Household Education by Harriet Martineau

Yet on the necessarian theory automatons we must apparently be.

From No Refuge but in Truth by Goldwin Smith

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