predestinarian
Americannoun
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of predestinarian
First recorded in 1630–40; predestin(ation) + -arian
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To be a good traveler, he philosophizes, one should “put yourself, as a predestinarian might say, calmly into the dice-box of small events, and be shaken out whenever circumstance may ordain.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2018
Silent or badly sobered, like Peter De Vries, punster turned grim predestinarian.
From Time Magazine Archive
Blodgett was a predestinarian of the old school, and was firmly imbedded in the belief that from all eternity it had been fore-ordained that he was to attend to just such fellows as the editor.
From Hoosier Mosaics by Maurice Thompson
This was understood as allowing, as entirely optional, the abandonment of what has been known as predestinarian Calvinism.
From 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century by Henry Hartshorne
His first encounter was with the heresiarch Gottschalk, whose predestinarian doctrines claimed to be modelled on those of St Augustine.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various
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