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Jansenist
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Jansenist has 1 sense
- jansenist(n = noun.person) Array - an advocate of Jansenism; Array is a kind of advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent
Derived form noun jansenism1
CIDE DICTIONARY
Jansenist, n. [F. Janséniste.].
A follower of Cornelius Jansen , a Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres, in Flanders, in the 17th century, who taught certain doctrines denying free will and the possibility of resisting divine grace. [1913 Webster]
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