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WordNet Dictionary |
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[n] an advocate of Jansenism |
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JANSENIST is a 9 letter word that starts with J. |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Jan"sen*ist\, n. [F. Jans['e]niste.] (Eccl. Hist.)
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.
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