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Unitarian

Unitarian

5 7.0
A person who believes God is one rather than three
  • noun
  • /ˌjuːnɪˈtɛəriən/
translation icon : unitario
  • I believe many humanists and Unitarians could stand to learn.
  • humanists and Unitarians

Examples

  • Large numbers of New England Puritans morphed into Unitarians, which was the religion of many of the founding fathers.

    Blog text (6)

  • We had a fellowship, as Unitarians do, in Walnut Creek, California.

    Academic text (2008)

  • We have one talk coming up next week at the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Catskills.

  • To be accurate, Stark indicated he was a Unitarian who doesn't believe in a supreme being.

    Academic text (2007)

  • I have started to check out the Universalist Unitarians and am intrigued.

    Blog text (1)

  • Tocqueville wrote in a letter that both Catholics and Unitarians are growing in America at the expense of the Protestants.

    Academic text (2001)

  • Jefferson was a Unitarian and a scriptural skeptic, and skepticism was widespread among the country's founders.

    Academic text (2004)

  • The Pilgrim faith later split into Congregationalists and Unitarians—hardly the core of the Republican Party.

    Blog text (3)

  • Friedman's view is thus roughly comparable to regarding American Unitarians—or even Mormons—as members of an endangered, non-Christian minority tribe.

    Academic text (2000)

  • As a proud Unitarian, she actively participated in community events at her church.

Synonyms

monotheist
vsUnitarian
1 6.1

A person who believes there is only one God

is a member or supporter of a specific church rather than just holding a belief

Compounds

Unitarian Church
1 5.7

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

Surface Forms

Unitarian singular
Unitarians plural

Morphology

Unitarian = unit (transparent) = unit + arian

The noun is the expected agent/participant form built from 'unit' + '-arian', meaning a person associated with the doctrine of oneness; the derivation is regular and semantically recoverable.

Etymology

Unitarian comes from the uni- part meaning 'one', the same root as unit and unity. A Unitarian is a person who believes in the 'oneness' of God rather than the idea of God as three persons, so the name points to that central belief.