English Explanatory Dictionary

Novatianism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A rigorist Christian sect that opposed re-admitting baptised Christians who had previously renounced their faith under persecution and by extension all those who had committed a mortal sin, founded by the priest and antipope Novatian in the third century.

Pronunciation

/nəʊˈveɪʃəˌnɪzəm/ /noʊˈveɪʃəˌnɪzəm/

Word forms

Novatianism

Etymology

From Novatian + -ism.

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