Calvinism

See also: calvinism

English

Etymology

From French calvinisme, equivalent to Calvin +‎ -ism.

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.

Synonyms

• (Christian religious tradition): Reformed tradition, Reformed faith, Reformed religion, Reformed Christianity

Hypernyms

• Protestantism

Derived terms

• Calvinise
• Calvinist
• Calvinistic
• Calvinistical
• Calvinize
• hyper-Calvinism

 

Translations

Christian religious tradition

• Armenian: կալվինականություն (kalvinakanutʻyun)
• Basque: kalbinismo
• Belarusian: кальвіні́зм m (kalʹvinízm)
• Bulgarian: калвинизъм m (kalvinizǎm)
• Catalan: calvinisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加爾文主義／加尔文主义 (zh) (Jiā'ěrwén zhǔyì)

• Czech: kalvinismus m
• Danish: calvinisme c
• Dutch: calvinisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: kalvinismo
• Estonian: kalvinism
• Finnish: kalvinismi (fi)
• French: calvinisme (fr) m
• Galician: calvinismo (gl) m
• Georgian: კალვინიზმი (ḳalvinizmi)
• German: Calvinismus (de) m, Kalvinismus (de) m
• Greek: καλβινισμός (el) m (kalvinismós)
• Hungarian: kálvinizmus (hu)
• Icelandic: kalvínstrú f
• Indonesian: Kalvinisme
• Italian: calvinismo (it) m
• Japanese: カルビン主義 (Karubin-shugi)
• Latvian: kalvinisms m
• Lithuanian: kalvinizmas m
• Macedonian: калвини́зам m (kalvinízam)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kalvinisme m

  Nynorsk: kalvinisme m

• Polish: kalwinizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: calvinismo (pt) m
• Romanian: calvinism (ro) n
• Russian: кальвини́зм (ru) m (kalʹvinízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: калвинизам m

  Roman: kalvinizam (sh) m

• Slovak: kalvinizmus m
• Slovene: kalvinizem m
• Spanish: calvinismo (es) m
• Swedish: kalvinism (sv) c
• Turkish: Kalvinizm
• Ukrainian: кальвіні́зм (uk) m (kalʹvinízm)
• Volapük: kalven