necessitarian
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of necessitarian
First recorded in 1790–1800; necessit(y) + -arian
Example Sentences
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His letters show that he was not an opportunist but a confessed "necessitarian."
From Time Magazine Archive
Collins was a pronounced necessitarian; Morgan regarded the denial of free will as tantamount to atheism.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
This is the question in dispute; and hence, if the necessitarian would say any thing to the purpose, he must show that his scheme is reconcilable with the freedom of the mind in willing.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
Indeed, the idea or supposition in question, is one of the strongholds of the necessitarian.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
The necessitarian may be an optimist of a high order.
From A Review of Edwards's by Tappan, Henry Philip
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