necessitarianism
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Origin of necessitarianism
First recorded in 1850–55; necessitarian + -ism
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It is opposed to the various doctrines of Free-Will, known as voluntarism, libertarianism, indeterminism, and is from the ethical standpoint more or less akin to necessitarianism and fatalism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
But then the Daily News suddenly lights up the gloom of necessitarianism with bright beams of hope.
From Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
There is, we must confess, a good deal of such sophistry to-day in the use of arguments drawn from the current philosophy of necessitarianism and the idea of heredity.
From St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition by Charles Gore
His necessitarianism is modern, his scepticism is modern, and the difficulties in which it arises are modern too.
From The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker
For here comes in our faith in the staunch mechanical pursuit of a fixed object, and covers itself with that imposing and colossal necessitarianism of The Times which we have before noticed.
From Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
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