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  Unitarianism

  noun

  the beliefs, principles, and practices of Unitarians.
• unitarianism
  unitarianism

  noun

  a system of Christian belief that maintains the unipersonality of God, rejects the Trinity and the divinity of Christ, and takes reason, conscience, and character as the criteria of belief and practice

Unitarianism

American  

[yoo-ni-tair-ee-uh-niz-uhm] / ˌju nɪˈtɛər i əˌnɪz əm /

noun

1. the beliefs, principles, and practices of Unitarians.

2. (lowercase) any system advocating unity or centralization, as in government.

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unitarianism ¹ British  

/ ˌjuːnɪˈtɛərɪəˌnɪzəm /

noun

1. a system of Christian belief that maintains the unipersonality of God, rejects the Trinity and the divinity of Christ, and takes reason, conscience, and character as the criteria of belief and practice

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unitarianism ² British  

/ ˌjuːnɪˈtɛərɪəˌnɪzəm /

noun

1. any unitary system, esp of government

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Etymology

Origin of Unitarianism

unitarian ( def. ) + -ism

Example Sentences

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Chesterton was raised in a high-minded Unitarianism whose morals he approved but whose understanding of God he found too thin to support the changes that he, as a man of the left, wanted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

By the mid-1830s, a few daring intellectuals around Boston had pushed beyond Unitarianism and gathered to discuss Hindu scriptures, Chinese philosophy, and German free thought in a circle they called the Transcendental Club.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

But like his father, President John Adams, he migrated over to a more conservative tradition and toward Unitarianism.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2017

The century’s most famous Catholic convert, a journalist named Orestes Brownson, tried Congregationalism, Presbyterianism, Universalism, Unitarianism, and Transcendentalism on his way to Catholicism.

From Slate ● Jul. 8, 2015

Unitarianism was a lenient Christian faith at the center of social reform in England.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

Deism, in England, 11; division of, 116, 126, 144; name explained, 118; peculiarities of English, 154; introduced into Germany, 214, 216, 217, 338, 415; compared with unitarianism, 328.

From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Adam Storey Farrar

The movement was connected with a tendency towards unitarianism, which, besides attracting many dissenters, exercised an influence within the Church.

From The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration by Reginald Lane Poole

Mrs. Eddy's recruits were not from theosophy, spiritualism, agnosticism, unitarianism, universalism or infidelity.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers by Elbert Hubbard

Priestley seems to have gotten on very well, although the philosophers found his materialism and unitarianism a trifle inconsistent.

From Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France by Max Pearson Cushing

The death-like submission of the churches, the stifling intolerance of nations, the stupid unitarianism of socialists,—by all these different roads we are returning to the gregarious life.

From Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War by Romain Rolland