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JANSENIST
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• JANSENIST (noun)
The noun JANSENIST has 1 sense:
1. an advocate of Jansenism
Familiarity information: JANSENIST used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
An advocate of Jansenism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Jansenist" is a kind of...):
advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)
Derivation:
Jansenism (the Roman Catholic doctrine of Cornelis Jansen and his disciples; salvation is limited to those who are subject to supernatural determinism and the rest are assigned to perdition)
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