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antinomian, a. and n.|æntɪˈnəʊmɪən|
[f. med.L. Antinomi the name of the sect (f. Gr. ἀντί against + νόµος law) + -an.]
A. adj. Opposed to the obligatoriness of the moral law; of or pertaining to the antinomians.
1645Milton Colast. Wks. 1738 I. 295 Anabaptistical, Antinomian, Heretical, Atheistical Epithets. 1719Waterland Vind. Christ's Div. Pref., Men..bred up (during the great Rebellion) in the Predestinarian and Antinomian Tenets. 1863H. Rogers Howe x. 271 A fierce agitation of the whole Antinomian controversy.
B. n. One who maintains that the moral law is not binding upon Christians, under the ‘law of grace.’ spec. One of a sect which appeared in Germany in 1535, alleged to hold this opinion.
1645E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1662) 120 The antinomians are so called, because they would have the law abolished. 1762Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) IV. lx. 484 The antinomians even insisted that the obligations of morality and natural law were suspended. 1857Spurgeon Park St. Pulpit II. 132, I am rather fond of being called an Antinomian..the term is generally applied to those who hold truth pretty firm, and will not let it go. |