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Definition: Jansenism |
JansenismNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Jansenism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Heterodoxy | Protestantism, Arianism, Adventism, Jansenism, Stundism, Erastianism, Calvinism, quakerism, methodism, anabaptism, Puseyism, tractarianism, ritualism, Origenism, Sabellianism, Socinianism, Deism, Theism, materialism, positivism, |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An opponent of the Jesuits, Jansen proposed a return to the principles laid down in the work of St Augustine of Hippo. His posthumously published work, Augustinus (1640), gained an increased following, and prominent adherents of Jansenism included Racine and Pascal. In France, Jansenism was associated with the convent of Port-Royal, which operated a number of famous schools that educated Racine and Pascal.
Jansenism emphasized original sin, human depravity, the necessity of divine grace, and predestination. In Jansenist thought, human beings were born bad, and without divine help a human being could never become good. This meant that one had to be very careful about one's choices, exhibit a high level of piety and moral rectitude, and prepare carefully through prayer and confession before receiving Communion (hence they favored less frequent reception). The Jansenist idea of predestination, based on Augustine's writing and close to that of Calvinism, was that only a small number of human beings, the "elect", were destined to be saved.
Jansenism was condemned as heretical in several papal bulls, notably by Innocent X and Clement XI. It is interesting to note that because Jansen himself died before his work was published and he included statements of submission to the Roman church in it, he himself was never considered a heretic. The final condemnation of Jansenism was by St. Pius X, who advocated daily communion and communion for children as soon as they could distinguish the host.
Contrast: Molinism
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Jansenism."
Crosswords: Jansenism |
| English words defined with "Jansenism": Jansenist. (references) |
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| "Jansenism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Jansenism" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
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| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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jansenism | 11 |
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| Language | Translations for "Jansenism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | jensinizëm. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الينسينية مذهب لاهوتي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | янсенизъм. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | jansénisme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | janzenizmus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | giansenismo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ansenismjay jansenismo. (various references) янсенизм. (various references) jansenizam. (various references) jansenismo. (various references) янсенізм. (various references) giáo phái Gian-xen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Jansenism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: jansens, Jansonius. (additional references) | |
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| Words rhyming with "Jansenism" (pronounced 'Jan"sen*ism'): Abolitionism, Absenteeism, Absinthism, Absolutism, Academicism, Academism, Accidentalism, Achromatism, Acosmism, Acrobatism, Acrotism, Actinism, Adiaphorism, AEstheticism, Africanism, Agnosticism, Agonism, Agrarianism, Agriculturism, Albinism, Albinoism, Alcoholism, Alienism, Allodialism, Allomerism, Allomorphism, Allotheism, Alphabetism, Altruism, Amateurism, Americanism, Amorphism, Anabaptism, Anachorism, Anachronism, Anacrotism, Anagrammatism, Analogism, Anamorphism, Anarchism, Anathematism, Anatocism, Anatomism, Anchoretism, Andabatism, Aneurism, Anglicanism, Anglicism, Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Saxonism. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-j-m-n-n-s-s" | |
-1 letter: jasmines. | |
-2 letters: inseams, jasmine, jasmins, nanisms, samisen, siennas. | |
-3 letters: amines, animes, anises, inanes, insane, inseam, jasmin, manses, mensas, mesian, messan, nanism, ninjas, sanies, sansei, semina, sennas, sienna. | |
-4 letters: amens, amies, amine, amins, amiss, anime, anise, inane, janes, jeans, jinns, jisms, mains, manes, manse, masse, means, mensa, mesas, miens, minae, minas, mines, mises, names, nemas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4A 61 6E 73 65 6E 69 73 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001010 01100001 01101110 01110011 01100101 01101110 01101001 01110011 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)J a n s e n i s m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004A 0061 006E 0073 0065 006E 0069 0073 006D |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)446780857180758579 |
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