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Meanings of necessitarian in English

Someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will.

        Usage of necessitarian in English
        1
        Conduct, according to the necessitarian, depends on knowledge.
        Essays in Literature and History
        2
        I summoned Desmarais to me; he answered not my call: he was from home,-anunfrequent occurrence with the necessitarian valet.
        Devereux — Volume 03
        3
        You are a necessitarian.
        Dr. Heidenhoff's Process
        4
        There is an intrusion of what seems like factitious melodrama instead of that tissue of events which one expects from a stern necessitarian.
        Masters of the English Novel: A Study of Principles and Personal...
        5
        Necessitarians may derive new arguments from the life-histories of twins.
        Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
        6
        Let the necessitarians argue as they may, freedom of will and action is the possession of every man and woman.
        Character
        Frequent collocations
        Necessitarian through the time