Antinomianism [1643]: The beliefs and practices of antinomians (antinomian, n.); denial of any requirement to follow the moral law.[1]
Antinomian [1560-]: A person who believes that Christians are
freed by grace from the obligation of observing the moral law; spec. a member
of any of various radical Protestant groupings of the 16th and 17th
centuries that were said to hold that opinion, and were often accused of
immoral and licentious practices.
Usually depreciative, and rarely used as self-designation. Not
in widespread use in English until the religious controversies of the early to
mid 17th cent.
Oxford English Dictionary, online
To those not having the law I became like one not having the law … so as to win
those not having the law.
The Bible: 1 Corinthians ix, 21
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