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Calvinistic

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Cal·vin·ism  (klv-nzm)
n.
The religious doctrines of John Calvin, emphasizing the omnipotence of God and the salvation of the elect by God's grace alone.
Calvin·ist adj. & n.
Calvin·istic adj.
Calvin·isti·cal·ly adv.
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Adj.1.Calvinistic - of or relating to or characteristic of Calvinism or its adherents
Calvinist, Calvinistical
faith, religion, religious belief - a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality"
Translations
Calvinistic [ˌkælvɪˈnɪstɪk] ADJ → calvinista
Calvinistic
adj → calvinistisch


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As I was weeping and begging on the high road, a minister from Kingston took me in, instructed me in the Calvinistic faith, taught me all he knew himself and aided me in my researches after my family.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Having fairly well advanced his own affairs Angel listened in a willing silence, as they jogged on together through the shady lanes, to his father's account of his parish difficulties, and the coldness of brother clergymen whom he loved, because of his strict interpretations of the New Testament by the light of what they deemed a pernicious Calvinistic doctrine.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
Throughout there was a strange bitterness; an absence of consolatory gentleness; stern allusions to Calvinistic doctrines--election, predestination, reprobation--were frequent; and each reference to these points sounded like a sentence pronounced for doom.
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