antinomian

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An adherent of antinomianism.
2. adj. Of or relating to the doctrine of antinomianism.
3. adj. Opposed to or denying the fixed meaning or universal applicability of moral law: "By raising segregation and racial persecution to the ethical level of law, it puts into practice the antinomian rules of Orwell's world. Evil becomes good, inhumanity is interpreted as charity, egoism as compassion” ( Elie Wiesel).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Denying the obligatoriness of the moral law, as if emancipated from it by the gospel.
2. Of or pertaining to the antinomians.
3. n. In theology, one who maintains that Christians are freed from the moral law as set forth in the Old Testament by the new dispensation of grace as set forth in the gospel; an opponent of legalism in morals. Antinomianism has existed in three forms: in the early church, as a species of Gnosticism, in the doctrine that sin is an incident of the body, and that a regenerate soul cannot sin; later, in the Reformation, as a reaction against the doctrine of good works in the Roman Catholic Church, in the antagonistic doctrine that man is saved by faith alone, regardless of his obedience to or disobedience of the moral law as a rule of life; finally, as a phase of extreme Calvinism, in English Puritan theology, in the doctrine that the sins of the elect are so transferred to Christ that they become his transgressions and cease to be the transgressions of the actual sinner. The chief exponent of the second form of anti-nomianism was John Agricola (Germany, 1492–1566); the chief exponent of the third, Tobias Crisp, D. D. (England, 1600–1642).

Wiktionary

1. n. One who embraces antinomianism (in Christianity: a religious movement which believes that only the spiritual 'law of Faith' (Romans 3:27) is essential for salvation; and which is 'against' all other practical 'laws' being taught as being essential for salvation; and refering to them as legalism).
2. adj. Of or pertaining to antinomianism.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.
2. n. (Eccl. Hist.) One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a follower of the doctrine of antinomianism
2. adj. relating to or influenced by antinomianism