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CALVINISTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Calvinistic mean? 

CALVINISTIC (adjective)
  The adjective CALVINISTIC has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Calvinism or its adherentsplay

  Familiarity information: CALVINISTIC used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CALVINISTIC (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Calvinism or its adherents

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Calvinist; Calvinistic; Calvinistical

Domain category:

faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)

Pertainym:

Calvinism (the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone)

Derivation:

Calvinism (the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone)


 Context examples 


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.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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