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
This was understood as allowing, as entirely optional, the abandonment of what has been known as predestinarian Calvinism.
From 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century by Hartshorne, Henry
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 Morris, Joseph Ernest
How much more liable is the soul to fall into the darkness of despair, or into ensnaring predestinarian tenets, when more severe temptations beset us and the suspension of grace is felt.
From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by Lenker, John Nicholas
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