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Predestinarian

noun
1.
Anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny.  Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinationist.
adjective
1.
Of or relating to predestination; holding the doctrine of predestination.





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"Predestinarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... desponding fool!" said Christian, unable, with all his calmness, any longer to suppress his contempt for the resigned and hopeless predestinarian. "That fate should have clogged me with such confederates!" he muttered, as he left the apartment—"this bigoted fool is now nearly irreclaimable—I must to Zarah; for she, or no one, must carry us through these straits. If I can but ...
— Peveril of the Peak • Sir Walter Scott
... and predestinarian quality were not inherent in the City, how, think you, would the valley of the Serchio—the hot, droughty, and baking Garfagnana—lead down pointing straight to Rome; and how would that same line, prolonged across the ...
— The Path to Rome • Hilaire Belloc
... overstrained and deformed. Theirs was an unguent hard to be swallowed; but hers was that unguent embittered and overheated until nature could not longer bear it. She had imbibed her ideas from the doctrines of one flaming predestinarian divine alone; and these were so rigid that they became a stumbling block to many of his brethren, and a mighty handle for the enemies of his party to turn the machine of the state ...
— The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner • James Hogg


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