adj
Meaning 1
Relating to this sect or their beliefs.
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
Grindletonian
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˌɡɹɪn.dəlˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
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General-American: /ˌɡɹɪn.dəlˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
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rhymes with -əʊniən
noun
Meaning 2
A member of an antinomian religious group in seventeenth-century England, which believed in the primacy of God's spirit over the word of the Bible and questioned the authority of ordination.
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History
Etymology
From Grindleton + -ian, after Grindleton, Lancashire, where the sect first emerged.