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antipredestinarian en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌæntɪpɹiːdɛstɪˈnɛəɹɪən/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˌæntipɹidɛstɪˈnɛɹiən/ (General-American)

Etymology

From anti- + predestinarian.

Meanings

1. Opposed to the doctrine of predestination.
   • Antipredestinarian ideas cropped up in many places, expressed by persons who may have had little else in common: sectaries such as the Quakers and General Baptists, democratizing radicals such as Walwyn and Winstanley, and academics such as the Cambridge Platonists Cudworth and More. 2006, Tobias Gregory, From Many Gods to One, page 304:
   • A 17th-century controversy between the followers of Jacob Arminius and Francis Gomar over predestination was settled by the Synod of Dort (1618—1619), which condemned the antipredestinarian teachings of Arminius in its Canons of Dort. 2009, Robert Benedetto, Donald K. McKim, Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches, page 346:

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