probabiliorist

English

Etymology

From Latin probabilior, comparative of probabilis (“probable”), +‎ -ist.

Noun

probabiliorist (plural probabiliorists)

One who holds, in opposition to the probabilists, that a person is bound to do that which is most probably right.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “probabiliorist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)