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necessitarian

[ nuh-ses-i-tair-ee-uhn ]

noun

  1. a person who advocates or supports necessitarianism ( libertarian ).


adjective

  1. pertaining to necessitarians or necessitarianism.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of necessitarian1

First recorded in 1790–1800; necessit(y) + -arian
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Example Sentences

An intimate friend of his was a necessitarian—that's the term, is it not?

It is the latter hypothesis which is expressed by the necessitarian theory.

I would ardently that you were a necessitarian, and (believing in an all-loving Omnipotence) an optimist.

Collins was a pronounced necessitarian; Morgan regarded the denial of free will as tantamount to atheism.

But such an "alternative" power, the necessitarian affirms, is incomprehensible and inexplicable.

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