jansenist

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jansenist - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Jansenist \Jan"sen*ist\, n. [F. Jans['e]niste.] (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.
     [1913 Webster]

jansenist - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Jansenist
      n 1: an advocate of Jansenism