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

No other necessitarian has made so formal and elaborate an attempt to prove, that the mind may be caused to act.

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

It appears to be involved in several inevitable contradictions; in the exposure of which the necessitarian has been accustomed to triumph.

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

If we only bear the distinction between the sensibility and the will in mind, it will be exceedingly easy to see through the cloudy sophistications of the necessitarian.

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

One would certainly suppose so, but for the logic of the necessitarian.

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