Calvinistic
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]Calvinistic (comparative more Calvinistic, superlative most Calvinistic)
- Alternative form of Calvinist
- 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 19, in Billy Budd[1], London: Constable & Co.:
- 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.