necessitarian

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From necessity + -arian.

The purpose of this disquisition is to refute the Necessitarians; it is resumed in the third chapter of this Book. — The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle, Aristotle
There are others, whose prejudices are still more formidable, inasmuch as they are grounded in their moral feelings and religious principles, which had been alarmed and shocked by the impious and pernicious tenets defended by Hume, Priestley, and the French fatalists or necessitarians; some of whom had perverted metaphysical reasonings to the denial of the mysteries and indeed of all the peculiar doctrines of Christianity; and others even to the subversion of all distinction between right and wrong. — Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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