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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

This is a fact which the necessitarian always overlooks.

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

He adopted and advocated the utilitarian and necessitarian theory of morals, and wrote of ordinary theism and religion as arising from personification of unknown causes for general or special phenomena.

From Theological Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles

The necessitarian may be an optimist of a high order.

From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip

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 Tappan, Henry Philip