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单词 Marcionite
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Definition of Marcionite in English:

Marcionite

noun ˈmɑːsɪənʌɪtˈmɑːʃ(ɪ)ənʌɪt
Church History
  • An adherent of the rigorously ascetic sect founded in Rome in the 2nd cent. a.d. by Marcion of Sinope, who rejected the authority of the Old and New Testaments (with the exception of ten of the Epistles of St Paul and an edited recension of the Gospel of St Luke) on the grounds that the god to which they referred was a God of Law rather than the God of Love.

adjective ˈmɑːsɪənʌɪtˈmɑːʃ(ɪ)ənʌɪt
Church History
  • Of or relating to the Marcionites.

Origin

Mid 16th century; earliest use found in William Turner (d. 1568), naturalist and religious controversialist. From post-classical Latin Marcionita (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian) from the name of Marcion of Sinope (2nd cent. a.d.) + -ita.

 
 

Definition of Marcionite in US English:

Marcionite

noun
Church History
  • An adherent of the rigorously ascetic sect founded in Rome in the 2nd cent. a.d. by Marcion of Sinope, who rejected the authority of the Old and New Testaments (with the exception of ten of the Epistles of St Paul and an edited recension of the Gospel of St Luke) on the grounds that the god to which they referred was a God of Law rather than the God of Love.

adjective
Church History
  • Of or relating to the Marcionites.

Origin

Mid 16th century; earliest use found in William Turner (d. 1568), naturalist and religious controversialist. From post-classical Latin Marcionita (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian) from the name of Marcion of Sinope (2nd cent. a.d.) + -ita.

 
 
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