antinomian

plural antinomians

1. JudaismChristianityOne who embraces, encourages, or practices antinomianism.

   "He was called by many persons an antinomian, though his life was exemplary."

   1886, J. H. Thorpe, "John Brine" entry in Dictionary of National Biography

comparative more antinomian · superlative most antinomian

1. Of or pertaining to antinomianism.
2. Rejecting higher moral or legal authority.

   We might turn our average into a rule (not a law, since war was antinomian) and develop a habit of never engaging the enemy.

   1922 (date written; published 1926), T[homas] E[dward] Lawrence, “Book III: A Railway Diversion”, in Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, published 1937, →OCLC, page 194

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   England was full of half-baked antinomian opinions. Pacifism, internationalism, humanitarianism of all kinds, feminism, free love, divorce-reform, atheism, birth-control—things like these were getting a better hearing than they would get in normal times.

   1937 March 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter IX, in The Road to Wigan Pier, London: Victor Gollancz, published May 1937, →OCLC, part II, page 170

   A carousing zone is a place where the ritualism of generating antinomian excitement prevails and may even be institutionalized.

   2009, Randall Collins, Violence: A Micro-sociological Theory, page 256