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Predestinarian

noun
1.
Anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny.  Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinationist.
adjective
1.
Of or relating to predestination; holding the doctrine of predestination.





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"Predestinarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... the sick man to a sad physician. Bucer, by turns Catholic, Lutheran, Anabaptist, Zwinglian! Besides, why this proselytism of a moral cure? 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." The Anabaptist believed in the inefficacy of baptism without faith manifested by an external act; but is not Calvin, at this very hour, as much to be pitied as the Anabaptist? He also doubted, ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 9 • Various
... predestinarian, and rode up to Basili, his Christian compatriot, whose ears, though not at all prophetic, by no means relished the intelligence. We all arrived at Colonna, remained some hours, and returned leisurely, saying a variety ...
— The Life of Lord Byron • John Galt


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