necessitarian

American  

[nuh-ses-i-tair-ee-uhn] / nəˌsɛs ɪˈtɛər i ən /

noun

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

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adjective

1. pertaining to necessitarians or necessitarianism.

Etymology

Origin of necessitarian

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

Example Sentences

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necessitarian

His letters show that he was not an opportunist but a confessed "necessitarian."

From Time Magazine Archive

This assumption comes with a peculiarly ill grace from the necessitarian.

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

Collins and Edwards, and the whole race of necessitarian theologians, evidently toil under insurmountable difficulties, while attempting to base religion upon this doctrine, and effect their escape only under a fog of subtleties.

From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan

But in making this attack upon the position of his opponent, when viewed as designed to serve the cause of free-agency, the necessitarian overlooks its bearing upon his own scheme.

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

This appears to be so only to the mind of the necessitarian; from which one fixed idea has shut out the light of observation.

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe