probabilioristn.
/ˌprɒbəˈbɪlɪərɪst/, U.S. /ˌprɑbəˈbɪljərəst/, /ˌprɑbəˈbɪliərəst/ Chiefly Roman Catholic Church.
An adherent of the theory of probabiliorism.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Probabilists Those who..assert, That we are obliged, on pain of Sinning, always to take the more probable side, are called Probabiliorists. The Jansenists, and particularly the Port-Royalists, are Probabiliorists.
1768 G. Baretti Acct. Manners & Customs Italy II. 49 The vain disputes between the..Probabilists and the Probabiliorists, have long divided our friars into nearly equal parties.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 602/2 The Probabiliorists put no restraint on liberty, where a man was convinced on solid grounds that the balance of evidence was decidedly in favour of his liberty.
1894 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 4 301 The more rigid probabiliorists endeavored to restrict or suppress it.
1962 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 2 64 The disputes, in the seventeenth century and later, among the Probabilists, the Probabiliorists, and the Equiprobabilists can suggest that the basic issue in this whole controversy is the degree of probability which a given opinion enjoys.
1991 Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Encycl. 786/1 Only if the opinion in favor of release from the requirements of a law was more probable than that holding the law to be valid would the probabiliorist allow one to be released from an obligation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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