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

Yet this position the necessitarian has been compelled to assume.

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

In this he is right; even the necessitarian will not, at the present day, deny that our desires, affections, &c., are different from volition.

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

A more striking instance could not be adduced to prove the correctness of the assertion already made, that the necessitarian confounds the motion of body with the action of mind.

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