calvinist

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1. calvinist - Noun

2. calvinist - Adjective

Meaning

A follower of Calvin; a believer in Calvinism.

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You say you are a Calvinist. I am not. I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know. Thomas Jefferson

You are staking your own head by trusting the King. Never will I so stake mine, for he has deceived me too often. His favourite maxim is, haereticis non est servanda fides. I am now bald and Calvinist and in that faith will I die. William the Silent

There's a certain point beyond which any sufficiently extreme Calvinist sect becomes semiotically indistinguishable from the Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh. But even though their eschatology is insane, it doesn't necessarily follow that they're trying to summon up the elder gods. Charles Stross

For God's sake, sit down. You look like a Calvinist rector telling his flock about Hell. Paul Bowles

Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship. Barbara Ehrenreich

I love to be busy. I'm envious of people who are able to take their spare time and relax. All I like to do is work. Perhaps it's lingering Calvinist guilt? Moby

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