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Jan·sen·ism    Audio Help   [jan-suh-niz-uhm] Pronunciation Key
–noun
the doctrinal system of Cornelis Jansen and his followers, denying free will and maintaining that human nature is corrupt and that Christ died for the elect and not for all humanity.

[Origin: 1650–60; < F jansénisme. See Jansen, -ism]

Jan·sen·ist, noun
Jan·sen·is·tic, Jan·sen·is·ti·cal, adjective
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Jan·sen·ism    Audio Help   (jān'sə-nĭz'əm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   The theological principles of Cornelis Jansen, which emphasize predestination, deny free will, and maintain that human nature is incapable of good. They were condemned as heretical by the Roman Catholic Church.

Jan'sen·ist n., Jan'sen·is'tic adj.
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Jansenism 
1656, in ref. to doctrine of Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638), Catholic bishop of Ypres, who maintained the perverseness and inability for good of the natural human will.

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jansenism

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the Roman Catholic doctrine of Cornelis Jansen and his disciples; salvation is limited to those who are subject to supernatural determinism and the rest are assigned to perdition 

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Jansenism

Jan"sen*ism\, n. [F. Jans['e]nisme.] (Eccl. Hist.) The doctrine of Jansen regarding free will and divine grace.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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