# Baianism

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A school of thought, the immediate historical predecessor of Jansenism, that claimed thorough Augustinianism over the scholasticism which held sway over most Catholic theologians at the time.

## Etymology
From Baian + -ism, after the Roman Catholic theologian Michael Baius (1513-1589).

## Source
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