Jansenist

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:34:49

Jan"sen*ist, n. [F. Jans'eniste.] 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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