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Definition of Calvinist
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Calvinism or its adherents.
Category relationships: Faith, Religion, Religious Belief
Partainyms: Calvinism, Calvinism, Calvinism
Derivative terms: Calvinism
2. Noun. An adherent of the theological doctrines of John Calvin.
Specialized synonyms: Huguenot
Generic synonyms: Necessitarian
Derivative terms: Calvinism, Calvinistical
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
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, ..."