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Calvinistic
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English
Etymology
From en Calvin istic.
Adjective
en Calvinist.
en 1924 w:Herman Melville w:Billy Budd London Constable & Co. 19 http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0608511h.html Their Captain's announcement was listened to by the throng of standing sailors in a dumbness like that of a seated congregation of believers in hell listening to the clergyman's announcement of his Calvinistic text. https://web.archive.org/web/20261012090611/http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0608511h.html 12 October 2026
Synonyms
en Calvinistical
Derived terms
en Anticalvinistic
en eponyms