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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A version of Monarchianism holding that the Godhead is a single being, differentiated only into a succession of modes or operations.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The doctrinal view respecting the Godhead maintained by Sabellius and his followers.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Eccl.) The doctrines or tenets of Sabellius. See Sabellian, n.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The practices of Sabellians; see sabellianism.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Sabellius, (fl. 3rd cent. AD), Monarchian theologian.]

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