antinomian

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Yet the romanticists are antinomian, too, sometimes, because the love of energy and beauty, of distinction in passion, tended naturally to become a little bizarre, plunging into the [255] Middle Age, into the secrets of old Italian story.

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  1. noun An adherent of antinomianism.
  2. adjective Of or relating to the doctrine of antinomianism.
  3. adjective 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).

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  • John H warned me about a guy with antinomian tendencies. —  The Boar's Head Tavern
  • In a delicious final twist, Lincoln shifts from Douglas as purveyor of tyranny to Douglas as purveyor of abolition and antinomian anarchy. —  Claremont.org
  • The scriptures are not accepted as historical because they present Jesus as anti-nationalistic, cosmopolitan, antinomian and accepting of foreigners and persons with perceived impurities. —  Israpundit
  • Put simply, being dispensational doesn't mean you believe in multiple ways of salvation; it doesn't mean that you are Arminian, antinomian, or non-lordship in your theology; and it doesn't require that you affirm the seven dispensations often associated with classical dispensationalism. —  Pulpit Magazine
  • Once again, we see that the antinomian social progressives are among the most intolerant people in our society today. —  The American Culture
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  1. From Medieval Latin Antinomī, antinomians, pl. of antinomus, opposed to the moral law : Greek anti-, anti- + Greek nomos, law; see nem- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle Latin antinomi, antinomians, from Greek as if *ἀντίνομος, against the law: see antinomy.
 

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