jansenism
IPA: dʒˈænsɪnɪzʌm
Root Word: Jansenism
noun
- The Catholic doctrines of Cornelius Jansen and his followers, which emphasise original sin, divine grace and predestination; condemned as a heresy by Pope Innocent X in 1653
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Examples of "jansenism" in Sentences
- The bishop preserved his Jansenism to the end.
- Thanks for the hint about references on Jansenism.
- As a young priest, he was a staunch opponent of Jansenism.
- The spirit of Jansenism lingered on well beyond the 1850s.
- Just as jansenism was countered by devotion to the human and divine love of Christ, so the intellectual assault of modernism is countered by devotion to the human and divine wisdom of Christ.