necessitarian
Americannoun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of necessitarian
First recorded in 1790–1800; necessit(y) + -arian
Example Sentences
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His letters show that he was not an opportunist but a confessed "necessitarian."
From Time Magazine Archive
In regard to this point, the necessitarian does not seem to have a very clear and definite idea.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
The manner in which the necessitarian speaks of cause in his maxims, and reasonings, and pretended demonstrations, is of very great service to him.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
No other necessitarian has made so formal and elaborate an attempt to prove, that the mind may be caused to act.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
He adopted and advocated the utilitarian and necessitarian theory of morals, and wrote of ordinary theism and religion as arising from personification of unknown causes for general or special phenomena.
From Theological Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles
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