predestinarian
Americannoun
adjective
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Etymology
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
Silent or badly sobered, like Peter De Vries, punster turned grim predestinarian.
From Time Magazine Archive
That the predestinarian theology, which denies the freedom of the will, is supported by names of great consideration, is cheerfully granted.
From On Calvinism by William Hull
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 Rossiter Johnson
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 S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
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