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Definition of Calvinist

1. Noun. An adherent of the theological doctrines of John Calvin.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Calvinism or its adherents.

Definition of Calvinist

1. n. A follower of Calvin; a believer in Calvinism.

Definition of Calvinist

1. Noun. (theology) A follower of the religious (Protestant) doctrines ascribed to w:John Calvin John Calvin (Calvinism). ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Calvinist

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Literary usage of Calvinist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of Last by John Hunt (1870)
"Baxter began his career as a Calvinist and a Conformist. ... To the end of his life he professed to be a Calvinist, but he explained Calvinism so as to make ..."

2. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"... which the Jiilich- Cleves succession difficulty might at one time have possibly brought down the ban of the Empire), he declared himself a Calvinist. ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"... which the Jiilich- Cleves succession difficulty might at one time have possibly brought down the ban of the Empire), he declared himself a Calvinist. ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... (1548-58) who became a Calvinist in 1559. and was afterwards accused of forgery and beheaded at Geneva in 1556; ..."

5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"Calvinist" as a friend of mine affronted Mr. Lyman Beecher with calling him,—to be rather credited with a style through the labyrinth of his epistles, ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... theology he is a moderate Calvinist and has no sympathy with revolutionary ideas in Biblical criticism. RIGGS, JAMES STEVENSON: Presbyterian; ..."

7. Works: With a Memoir of His Life and Character by Samuel Hopkins (1854)
"SEMI-Calvinist. Sir, I have wanted, for some time, to talk with you about the notion which some lately advance, •nz.. that Christians may, yea, ..."

8. Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: From the Restoration of King by Gilbert Burnet (1850)
"... of Brandenburg!! about their concerns in Juliers and Cloves : and he persuaded that elector to turn Calvinist ; for since their family was fallen, ..."

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