Jansenist \Jan"sen*ist\, n. [F. Jans['e]niste.] (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Cornelius Jansen, a Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres, in Flanders, in the 17th century, who taught certain doctrines denying free will and the possibility of resisting divine grace.
Jansenist n : an advocate of Jansenism