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Socinian
[ soh-sin-ee-uhn ]
noun
- a follower of Faustus and Laelius Socinus who rejected a number of traditional Christian doctrines, as the Trinity, the divinity of Christ, and original sin, and who held that Christ was miraculously begotten and that salvation will be granted to those who adopt Christ's virtues.
adjective
- of or relating to the Socinians or their doctrines.
Socinian
/ səʊˈsɪnɪən /
noun
- a supporter of the beliefs of Faustus and Laelius Socinus, who rejected such traditional Christian doctrines as the divinity of Christ, the Trinity, and original sin, and held that those who follow Christ's virtues will be granted salvation
adjective
- of or relating to the Socinians or their beliefs
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Derived Forms
- Soˈcinianˌism, noun
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Other Words From
- So·cini·an·ism noun
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Example Sentences
Some reviled the Bishop for being a Socinian, which he was not, and some for being a Scotchman, which he was.
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A friend called on us the other day, and told us that you had left our Society and become a Socinian.
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The bearing of this interpretation of the Epistle on the Socinian doctrine generally is plain.
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The literature of those great men was, if I may suffer myself the figure, the Socinian graft of a Calvinist stock.
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Against lax views of Socinian tendency he directed his able treatise De duabus naluris in Christo .
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