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English
Etymology
From Calvin + -istic.
Adjective
Calvinistic (comparative more Calvinistic, superlative most Calvinistic)
- Alternative form of Calvinist
1924, Herman Melville, chapter 19, in Billy Budd, 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.
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