predestinarian
Americannoun
adjective
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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
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
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
The exile was Anabaptist by the same title as Calvin was predestinarian, in virtue of a text of Scripture: "Go; whoever shall believe and be baptized will be saved."
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter
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