predestinarian
Americannoun
adjective
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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
Silent or badly sobered, like Peter De Vries, punster turned grim predestinarian.
From Time Magazine Archive
I am not a predestinarian, Brother Elisha, but I know that certain causes must produce certain effects, as surely as given figures produce known results.
From The Haunted Homestead A Novel by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
I left this quick-eared predestinarian, and rode up to Basili, his Christian compatriot, whose ears, though not at all prophetic, by no means relished the intelligence.
From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John
About 475 it broke out again when Lucidus was condemned at a council at Lyons and forced to retract his predestinarian views; and again about 520.
From A Source Book for Ancient Church History by Ayer, Joseph Cullen
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