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Jansenism
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jansenism
English
Etymology
en :af Jansen -ism + 1 en Cornelius Jansen Cornelius Jansen.
Pronunciation
en
Noun
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en Catholicism The doctrine of Cornelius Jansen and his followers, which emphasise original sin, divine grace and predestination; condemned as a heresy by Pope Innocent X in 1653.
en 2009 w:Diarmaid MacCulloch A History of Christianity 798 Penguin 2010 From the mid-seventeenth century, therefore, disputes about Jansenism turned into a struggle for the soul of the French Church, now vigorously resurgent against a steadily more beleaguered Reformed Protestantism.
Hypernyms
en Catholicism
Related terms
en Jansenist
Translations
doctrine
Bulgarian: bg янсенѝзъм m
Catalan: ca jansenisme m
Dutch: nl jansenisme n
Estonian: et jansenism
Finnish: fi jansenismi
French: fr jansénisme
Galician: gl xansenismo m
German: de Jansenismus m
Hungarian: hu janzenizmus
Italian: it giansenismo m
Latin: la Iansenismus
Portuguese: pt jansenismo m
Romanian: ro jansenism n
Spanish: es jansenismo m
Walloon: wa jansenisse
See also
en Bollandism Lefebvrism
en 4-syllable words eponyms