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(historical, Christianity) A rigorist Christian sect that opposed re-admitting baptised Christians who had previously renounced their faith under persecution and by extension all those who had committed a mortal sin, founded by the priest and antipope Novatian in the third century. quotations
Novatianism still retained a measure of the Divine Spirit , and was honoured with furnishing those who suffered for Jesus
1794, Joseph Milner, The History of the Church of Christ