Grindletonian
English
Etymology
From Grindleton + -ian, after Grindleton, Lancashire, where the sect first emerged.
Noun
Grindletonian (plural Grindletonians)
- A member of an antinomian religious group in seventeenth-century England, which believed in the primacy of God's spirit over the word of the Bible and questioned the authority of ordination.
Adjective
Grindletonian (comparative more Grindletonian, superlative most Grindletonian)
- Relating to this sect or their beliefs.
- 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 63:
- Governor Winthrop attributed the heresies of Mistress Anne Hutchinson to Grindletonian doctrines.
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