antinomian

American  

[an-ti-noh-mee-uhn] / ˌæn tɪˈnoʊ mi ən /

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.

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antinomian British  

/ 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

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noun

1. a member of a Christian sect holding such a doctrine

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• antinomianism
  noun

Etymology

Origin of antinomian

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

Antinomian reform efforts led to experimental social utopian communities such as Oneida, in the state of New York, founded in 1848 by the Christian writer John Humphrey Noyes.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2022

He was no Antinomian himself, but one can well believe that his teaching might easily be perverted to Antinomian purposes.

From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)

Hardly had the echoes of the Antinomian controversy died away when there came to New England a yet more rending cataclysm, in which women were again the leading spirits.

From Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by Larus, John Rouse

And hence the downward career into stupid indifferentism, even into Antinomian profligacy.”

From Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Kingsley, Charles

The Antinomian theory of marital relations, which Chapuys ascribes to Anne, was an Anabaptist doctrine of the time.

From Henry VIII. by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)