necessarian

American  

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

noun

1. necessitarian.

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Other Word Forms

• necessarianism noun

Etymology

Origin of necessarian

necessary + -an

Example Sentences

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 Lamb, Charles

But the philosophical necessarian does not grant this postulate.

From On Calvinism by Hull, William

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 Jones, Rufus Matthew

The necessarian theory, which in this connection is still advanced or implied, largely accepted as it has been, I cannot help thinking is really traceable to an oversight.

From No Refuge but in Truth by Smith, Goldwin

Yet on the necessarian theory automatons we must apparently be.

From No Refuge but in Truth by Smith, Goldwin