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necessitarian

[ nuh-ses-i-tair-ee-uhn ]

noun

  1. a person who advocates or supports necessitarianism ( libertarian ).


adjective

  1. pertaining to necessitarians or necessitarianism.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of necessitarian1

First recorded in 1790–1800; necessit(y) + -arian
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Example Sentences

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The regularists are the heirs of the nominalists; the necessitarians of the Epicureans.

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That a worse “fatalism†is inculcated in the doctrine of a foreordaining and ever-directing providence, planning and controlling every one of the child’s actions, than ever was taught in necessitarian essays.

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Collins was a pronounced necessitarian; Morgan regarded the denial of free will as tantamount to atheism.

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He adopted and advocated the utilitarian and necessitarian theory of morals, and wrote of ordinary theism and religion, as arising from personification of unknown causes, for general or special phenomena.

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The necessitarian may be an optimist of a high order.

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