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n. - The belief or doctrine of one who submits to the belief that one is powerless to change one's overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens)

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  • Neither logical determinism nor predestinarianism does so.
  • I think that Moby-Dick - at least in the person of Ahab - is a great commentary on Calvinist predestinarianism.
  • Apocalypticism and predestinarianism and other puppet-theories never seem to go away and at certain times exert an inordinate appeal upon many.
  • Moreover, Valla's insistence on the will as the locus of moral behavior seems compromised by the predestinarianism advocated by the interlocutor “Lorenzo” in his...
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