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Predestinarian

noun

Anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny. Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinationist.

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... inflexible law for a personal God with a living will, it is not strange that some phase of the same idea should creep into even the purest theology, and that in Mr. Robertson's theory of prayer we should find traces of the rigidity characterizing 'ultra predestinarian' as well as 'development' schemes ...

— Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy. • Various

... the Arenes, but it does not look its age. 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. Outside the church in the open space are traces of walls that are level with the earth; and if I am not mistaken, they are the foundations of an early basilica, with apse to the west. The church was rebuilt ...

— In Troubadour-Land - A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc • S. Baring-Gould

Words linked to "Predestinarian" : predestination, predestinationist, necessitarian, fatalist