JANSENIST

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An advocate of Jansenism

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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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