antinomian

[ an-ti-noh-mee-uhn ]

noun

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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

First recorded in 1635–45; from Medieval Latin Antinom(ī) name of sect (plural of Antinomus “opponent of (the moral) law,” from Greek antí anti- + nómos “law”) + -ian

Example Sentences

Success in our politics often requires a voracious, antinomian egotism, a sense that rules are for others.

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Here he first taught the views which Luther termed Antinomian.

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In short, there never was a greater mistake than to suppose there was any thing Antinomian or licentious in Whitefield's teaching.

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Do not let us encumber and disfigure religion by absurdities, impossibilities, and antinomian abominations.

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It contained, mixed up with a great variety of useful remarks, a number of anti-scriptural and antinomian passages.

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He twisted human forms, some will think, into fantastic peculiar shapes, becoming more than romantic—antinomian.

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