1525–35; < Late Latin Pelagiānus; see -an
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“It’s like Anthony Burgess’s idea that Pelagian liberalism alternates historically with Augustinian conservatism,” he said.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2019
Thousands of others have arrived on nearby Pelagian islands, as well as Sicily and Sardinia.
From Newsweek ● Jun. 12, 2011
The daily fly record stands at 27, first set in 2004 by Jordan and three students aboard Philipps's old boat, Pelagian, but it has been tied since.
From Time Magazine Archive
The shock has tumbled him from the single Pelagian optimism about man's moral perfectibility that he entertained in his Pygmy days into another error, radical pessimism about man's depravity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Flacius replied in his Christian and Reliable Answer to All manner of Sophistries of the Pelagian Accident, 1572, protesting that the doctrine ascribed to him was a misrepresentation of his teaching.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)
Analogous circumstances may have caused, in the ancient catastrophes of our planet, that singular mixture of pelagian and fluviatile bones and petrifactions, which is observed in some rocks of recent formation.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von
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