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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F.

Jansénisme

(Eccl. Hist.)

The doctrine of

Jansen

regarding free will and divine grace.

Noun.

The doctrine of Jansen in regard to free will and grace.

Jansenism ‎(uncountable)

The Catholic doctrines of Cornelius Jansen and his followers, which emphasise original sin, divine grace and predestination.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 798:
  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.

doctrine