Definition of "predestinarian" []

• Of or relating to predestination. (adjective)
• Believing in or based on the doctrine of predestination. (adjective)
• One who believes in the doctrine of predestination. (noun)

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• "This Dobson critter is a religious determinist, specifically, a variant of a Calvinist predestinarian (John Calvin, 16th Century Protestant theologian; a Protestant when being a Protestant could get you burned at the stake)."
• "They were militant predestinarian Baptists, severe in their religion and intolerant of people who did not believe as they did."
• "A Calvinist predestinarian and believer in the Second Coming, Absalom was a justified sinner who found his alter ego in Ma."