Erasmian

Meanings

adjectiveErasmian (not comparable)

not comparableOf or pertaining to Erasmus (Catholic priest and theologian).
It was not, as Juan de Valdes very clearly attests, repugnant to an Erasmian Evangelical, even if he otherwise admired Luther.
1985, Lucien Febvre, The problem of unbelief in the sixteenth century: the religion of Rabelais, →ISBN, page 286

nounErasmian (plural Erasmians)

A follower of Erasmus.
The spirit of the Spanish Erasmians was in fact different from the spirit that inspired Erasmus and his followers in the rest of Western Europe.
1992, Leopoldo Zea, Amy Oliver, The role of the Americas in history, →ISBN, page 220

From the Renaissance Latin Erasmiānus.

French érasmien, érasmien

Greek ερασμιακός

Italian erasmiano, erasmico

Portuguese erasmiano, erásmico

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