partialist

English

Etymology

partial +‎ -ist

Noun

partialist (plural partialists)

1. One who is partial.
2. (theology) One who believes in partialism, i.e. that Christ's atonement was made for only a part of humanity, the elect.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “partialist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)