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

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Example Sentences

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necessitarian

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

From Time Magazine Archive

If it were otherwise, if every cause were an effect in the sense in which a volition is assumed to be an effect by the necessitarian, what would be the consequence?

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

If this be all that is meant, why not state the thing so that it may be acquiesced in by the necessitarian, instead of keeping up such a war of words?

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

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 immense chasm, the necessitarian can cross only by stepping over from one branch of his ambiguous proposition to another; he either does this, or he does not reach the point in controversy at all.

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

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