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Jansenism  n.  (Eccl. Hist.) The doctrine of Jansen regarding free will and divine grace.






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"Jansenism" Quotes from Famous Books



... those in whom the movement of the Renascence was incarnate became aware what spirit they were of; and they attacked Supernaturalism in its Biblical stronghold, defended by Protestants and Romanists with equal zeal. In the eyes of the "Patriarch," Ultramontanism, Jansenism, and Calvinism were merely three persons of the one "Infame" which it was the object of his life to crush. If he hated one more than another, it was probably the last; while D'Holbach, and the extreme left of the free-thinking best, were disposed ...
— Lectures and Essays • Thomas Henry Huxley



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