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ARMINIANISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
17th century theology (named after its founder Jacobus Arminius) that opposes the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin and holds that human free will is compatible with God's sovereignty
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Arminianism" is a kind of...):
Protestantism (the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation)
Derivation:
Arminian (of or relating to Arminianism)