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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

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Derived Forms

  • ˌantiˈnomianism, noun

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Other Words From

  • an·ti·no·mi·an·ism noun

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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

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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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