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Unitarian

Unitarian

9 8.0
Relating to the Christian belief that God is one rather than three
  • adjective
  • /ˌjuːnɪˈtɛəriən/
translation icon : unitario
  • Many of the first Transcendentalists began as Unitarian ministers, including Emerson, Parker, Hedge, and John Weiss.
  • Unitarian Universalist
  • Unitarian Church
  • Unitarian Universalist Association

Examples

  • Of course, Beacon Press is the publisher closely related to the Unitarian Universalist Association.

    Blog text (4)

  • John Higgins is the pastor of the Unitarian Universalist.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The one at the Unitarian church where you two got married last week.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • But the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles and its community have supported it throughout its history.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Members of the First Unitarian Church of Hamilton have been and are great supporters.

    Academic text (2014)

  • Since age thirty-six, Schmeltzer has been an active member of the Unitarian church.

    Academic text (2005)

  • And deists were also Unitarian in the sense that they didn't believe in a Trinity.

  • After Herman Melville finished Moby Dick, he began to attend a Unitarian church in Brooklyn.

    Blog text (29)

  • Khoren Arisian is minister emeritus of the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis and president of Friends of Religious Humanism.

    Academic text (1998)

  • The Unitarian beliefs emphasize the oneness of God over the traditional concept of the Trinity.

Synonyms

monotheistic
vsUnitarian
7 6.1

Believing there is only one god

is held by a named group that teaches oneness rather than three persons

Compounds

Unitarian Church
1 5.7

A Protestant Christian group that believes God is one, not three

Surface Forms

Unitarian positive

Morphology

Unitarian = unit (transparent) = unit + arian

The formation is a regular derivation: 'unit' (one/oneness) + the agentive suffix '-arian' yields someone or something relating to the doctrine of oneness, which is predictable from the base.

Etymology

Unitarian comes from the uni- part meaning 'one', the same root as unit and unity. It describes beliefs or churches that stress the 'oneness' of God rather than the idea of God as three persons, so Unitarian means 'about believing in one God'.