Grindletonian

English

Etymology

From Grindleton +‎ -ian, after Grindleton, Lancashire, where the sect first emerged.

Noun

Grindletonian (plural Grindletonians)

1. 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.

Adjective

Grindletonian (comparative more Grindletonian, superlative most Grindletonian)

1. Relating to this sect or their beliefs.
   • 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 63:

     Governor Winthrop attributed the heresies of Mistress Anne Hutchinson to Grindletonian doctrines.