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Meaning of Novatianism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
nəʊˈveɪʃəˌnɪzəm

Definitions

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.

historical, uncountable

Examples

Novatianism still retained a measure of the Divine Spirit , and was honoured with furnishing those who suffered for Jesus

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