UNITARIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Unitarian mean? 

• UNITARIAN (noun)
  The noun UNITARIAN has 1 sense:

1. adherent of Unitarianism

  Familiarity information: UNITARIAN used as a noun is very rare.

• UNITARIAN (adjective)
  The adjective UNITARIAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characterizing Unitarianism

  Familiarity information: UNITARIAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNITARIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adherent of Unitarianism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Unitarian" is a kind of...):

adherent; disciple (someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another)

Holonyms ("Unitarian" is a member of...):

Unitarian Church (the Protestant denomination that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity)

Derivation:

Unitarian (of or relating to or characterizing Unitarianism)

• UNITARIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characterizing Unitarianism

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Domain category:

faith; religion; religious belief (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny)

Pertainym:

Unitarianism (a non-doctrinal religion that stresses individual freedom of belief and rejects the Trinity)

Derivation:

Unitarian (adherent of Unitarianism)

 Context examples 

In spite of their Unitarian proclivities and their masks of conservative broadmindedness, they were two generations behind interpretative science: their mental processes were mediaeval, while their thinking on the ultimate data of existence and of the universe struck him as the same metaphysical method that was as young as the youngest race, as old as the cave-man, and older—the same that moved the first Pleistocene ape-man to fear the dark; that moved the first hasty Hebrew savage to incarnate Eve from Adam's rib; that moved Descartes to build an idealistic system of the universe out of the projections of his own puny ego; and that moved the famous British ecclesiastic to denounce evolution in satire so scathing as to win immediate applause and leave his name a notorious scrawl on the page of history.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)