Erasmian

American  

[ih-raz-mee-uhn] / ɪˈræz mi ən /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or like Erasmus.

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noun

1. a follower of Erasmus.

Other Word Forms

• Erasmianism
  noun

Etymology

Origin of Erasmian

First recorded in 1750–60; Erasm(us) + -ian

Example Sentences

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Erasmian

Thoroughly permeated by the Erasmian spirit, too, was that class of municipal magistrates who were soon to take the lead and to set the fashion in the established Republic.

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan

Then there was a party of Erasmian reform, mainly intellectual but profoundly Christian.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

After Luther's death, however, he came out unmistakably and publicly, also in favor of synergism, endorsing even the Erasmian definition of free will as "the power in man to apply himself to grace."

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by Bente, F. (Friedrich)

The little Dutch eighteenth-century country-seats and garden-houses in which the national spirit took great delight are the fulfilment of a purely Erasmian ideal.

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan

Not for naught did Erasmus praise as truly Dutch those qualities which we might also call truly Erasmian: gentleness, kindliness, moderation, a generally diffused moderate erudition.

From Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Huizinga, Johan