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 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 John Galt
He left behind in manuscript a book called "Augustinus," the predestinarian tenor of which was condemned finally, though nearly a century later, by Pope Clement XI., in 1713, in the Bull called Unigenitus.
From Beautiful Europe: Belgium by Joseph Ernest Morris
Being a zealous opponent of predestinarian views, he expressed his criticisms of Calvin’s teaching on the subject in one of the public conferences held each Friday.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various
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