predestinarian
Americannoun
adjective
Other Word Forms
- predestinarianism noun
Etymology
Origin of predestinarian
First recorded in 1630–40; predestin(ation) + -arian
Example Sentences
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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
For hours the two rowed their theological pea pods up & down the mainstream of early Calvinist theology�the predestinarian doctrine that man is saved or damned in the mind of God before he is born.
From Time Magazine Archive
Silent or badly sobered, like Peter De Vries, punster turned grim predestinarian.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mr. Peter Bús regarded the dangers of others in the spirit of a true predestinarian.
From A Hungarian Nabob by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)
It was in that church that the Council assembled in 475 on the doctrine of Grace, when the Gallican prelates were by no means disposed to admit S. Augustine's predestinarian teaching.
From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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