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Jansenism /ˈdʒansənɪz(ə)m /nounA Christian movement of the 17th and 18th centuries, based on Jansen’s writings and characterized by moral rigour and asceticism.Few would now dispute that Jansenism, originally an austere Augustinian movement, was one of the most significant intellectual influences of the age....- Bitter quarrels over the bull Unigenitus, promulgated in 1713 against Jansenism, lasted half a century, and only died down in the late 1760s.
- Many who did believe were influenced by the heresy of Jansenism, which taught that human nature is depraved and that Jesus died to save only a chosen few.
DerivativesJansenist /ˈdʒansənɪst / noun ...- Above all, the Augustinian denial of human capacity for perfectibility had, especially among Jansenists and Calvinists, representatives against whom the Enlightenment was in sharp reaction.
- The peace of the church intended to lay them to rest therefore lasted barely more than a decade, and by the early 1680s leading Jansenists, like the Huguenots they loved to denounce, were leaving for exile beyond the king's reach.
- During the 1750s French Huguenots suffered the last great wave of state-sponsored persecution, and Jansenists within the Gallican Church fared little better.
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