Definitions for Marcionite

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Marcionite Mar·cion·ite

Spelling: [mahr-shuh-nahyt]

IPA: /ˈmɑr ʃəˌnaɪt/

Marcionite is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 941 anagrams from letters in Marcionite (aceiimnort).

Definitions for Marcionite

noun

1. a member of a Gnostic ascetic sect that flourished from the 2nd to 7th century a.d. and that rejected the Old Testament and denied the incarnation of God in Christ.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Marcionites or their doctrines.

Origin of Marcionite

From the Late Latin word Marciōnīta, dating back to 1530-40. See Marcion, -ite¹

Examples for Marcionite

The Antitheses of Marcion had a place in the Marcionite canon (see above, p. 270).

The golden age of the Marcionite churches falls between the years 150 and 250.

The Marcionite Antitheses were probably spread among other Gnostic sects.

Tertullian has frequently pointed to the contradictions in the Marcionite conception of the god of creation.

Metrodorus, a Marcionite priest, underwent the same punishment with him.

Still more logical indeed was the dilemma: either Jewish, or Marcionite Christian.