"Calvinism" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Calvinisms [plural]
Etymology: From French calvinisme, equivalent to Calvin + -ism. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|fr|calvinisme}} French calvinisme, {{suffix|en|Calvin|ism}} Calvin + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} Calvinism (countable and uncountable, plural Calvinisms)
  1. The Christian religious tradition based upon the doctrines and forms of Christian practice of several Protestant reformers, especially John Calvin, in contrast to Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anabaptism, and Arminianism. One distinctive trait of the system is its Augustinian doctrine of predestination, which teaches that God has elected some for salvation, apart from anything they do or believe. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Protestantism Synonyms (Christian religious tradition): Reformed tradition, Reformed faith, Reformed religion, Reformed Christianity Hypernyms: Protestantism Derived forms: Calvinise, Calvinist, Calvinistic, Calvinistical, Calvinize, hyper-Calvinism Translations (Christian religious tradition): կալվինականություն (kalvinakanutʻyun) (Armenian), kalbinismo (Basque), кальвіні́зм (kalʹvinízm) [masculine] (Belarusian), калвинизъм (kalvinizǎm) [masculine] (Bulgarian), calvinisme [masculine] (Catalan), 加爾文主義 (Chinese Mandarin), 加尔文主义 (Jiā'ěrwén zhǔyì) (Chinese Mandarin), kalvinismus [masculine] (Czech), calvinisme [common-gender] (Danish), calvinisme [neuter] (Dutch), kalvinismo (Esperanto), kalvinism (Estonian), kalvinismi (Finnish), calvinisme [masculine] (French), calvinismo [masculine] (Galician), კალვინიზმი (ḳalvinizmi) (Georgian), Calvinismus [masculine] (German), Kalvinismus [masculine] (German), καλβινισμός (kalvinismós) [masculine] (Greek), kálvinizmus (Hungarian), kalvínstrú [feminine] (Icelandic), Kalvinisme (Indonesian), calvinismo [masculine] (Italian), カルビン主義 (Karubin-shugi) (Japanese), kalvinisms [masculine] (Latvian), kalvinizmas [masculine] (Lithuanian), калвини́зам (kalvinízam) [masculine] (Macedonian), kalvinisme [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), kalvinisme [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), kalwinizm [masculine] (Polish), calvinismo [masculine] (Portuguese), calvinism [neuter] (Romanian), кальвини́зм (kalʹvinízm) [masculine] (Russian), калвинизам [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), kalvinizam [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), kalvinizmus [masculine] (Slovak), kalvinizem [masculine] (Slovene), calvinismo [masculine] (Spanish), kalvinism [common-gender] (Swedish), Kalvinizm (Turkish), кальвіні́зм (kalʹvinízm) [masculine] (Ukrainian), kalven (Volapük), Calfiniaeth [masculine] (Welsh)
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        "Terms with Dutch translations",
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        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
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        "The Christian religious tradition based upon the doctrines and forms of Christian practice of several Protestant reformers, especially John Calvin, in contrast to Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anabaptism, and Arminianism. One distinctive trait of the system is its Augustinian doctrine of predestination, which teaches that God has elected some for salvation, apart from anything they do or believe."
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      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "word": "Reformed tradition"
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      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "word": "Reformed faith"
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    {
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      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "kalvinakanutʻyun",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "word": "կալվինականություն"
    },
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      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "word": "kalbinismo"
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      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "kalʹvinízm",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "кальвіні́зм"
    },
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      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "kalvinizǎm",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "калвинизъм"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "calvinisme"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "word": "加爾文主義"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "Jiā'ěrwén zhǔyì",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "word": "加尔文主义"
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "kalvinismus"
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    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
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      "word": "calvinisme"
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      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
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      "word": "calvinisme"
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      "code": "eo",
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      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "word": "kalvinismo"
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      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "word": "kalvinism"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "word": "kalvinismi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "calvinisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "calvinismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ḳalvinizmi",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "word": "კალვინიზმი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Calvinismus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kalvinismus"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kalvinismós",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "καλβινισμός"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "word": "kálvinizmus"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "kalvínstrú"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "word": "Kalvinisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "calvinismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "Karubin-shugi",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "word": "カルビン主義"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "kalvinisms"
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    {
      "code": "lt",
      "lang": "Lithuanian",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "kalvinizmas"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "kalvinízam",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "калвини́зам"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kalvinisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kalvinisme"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kalwinizm"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "calvinismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "calvinism"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kalʹvinízm",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "кальвини́зм"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "калвинизам"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
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      "word": "kalvinizam"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kalvinizmus"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kalvinizem"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "calvinismo"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "kalvinism"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "word": "Kalvinizm"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "kalʹvinízm",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "кальвіні́зм"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "word": "kalven"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "Christian religious tradition",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Calfiniaeth"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Calvinism"
}

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