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antinomian
[ an-ti-noh-mee-uhn ]
noun
- a person who maintains that Christians, by virtue of divine grace, are freed not only from biblical law and church-prescribed behavioral norms, but also from all moral law.
antinomian
/ ˌæntɪˈnəʊmɪən /
adjective
- relating to the doctrine that by faith and the dispensation of grace a Christian is released from the obligation of adhering to any moral law
noun
- a member of a Christian sect holding such a doctrine
Derived Forms
- ˌantiˈnomianism, noun
Other Words From
- an·ti·no·mi·an·ism noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of antinomian1
Example Sentences
Success in our politics often requires a voracious, antinomian egotism, a sense that rules are for others.
Here he first taught the views which Luther termed Antinomian.
In short, there never was a greater mistake than to suppose there was any thing Antinomian or licentious in Whitefield's teaching.
Do not let us encumber and disfigure religion by absurdities, impossibilities, and antinomian abominations.
It contained, mixed up with a great variety of useful remarks, a number of anti-scriptural and antinomian passages.
He twisted human forms, some will think, into fantastic peculiar shapes, becoming more than romantic—antinomian.
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