Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Holding the tenets of solifidians; pertaining to the solifidians.
  • noun One who maintains that faith alone, without works, is all that is necessary to justification. See fiduciary, II., 2.

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

  • noun (Eccl.) One who maintains that faith alone, without works, is sufficient for justification; -- opposed to nullifidian.
  • adjective Holding the tenets of Solifidians; of or pertaining to the solifidians.

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

  • noun A person who believes that faith alone (as opposed to good deeds) brings salvation.

Etymologies

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From Latin soli- (only) + fides (faith) + -ian (relating to).

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Examples

  • Unlike Newman, who aimed at reconciling differences, and to whom the Lutheran formula was but "a paradox or a truism", Ward repudiated the "solifidian" view as an outrage on the Divine sanctity; it was "a type of Antichrist", and in sound reason no better than Atheism.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • How deeply the solifidian doctrine had penetrated into the very bosom of the church was revealed by the storminess of the debate.

    The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

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