(a.) Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.
(n.) One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535.
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Legalist
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(n.) One who practices or advocates strict conformity to law; in theology, one who holds to the law of works. See Legal, 2 (a).
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(1) The official code of conduct for special advisers adopts legalistic terms to describe their key role as "devilling", or squirrelling away at all government policy and communications to ensure it toes the appropriate political line.
(2) In short, the ECB bond-buying programme has transformed the ECB from a passive observer of the euro crisis, paralysed by the outdated legalistic constraints of the Maastricht Treaty, into a proper lender of last resort.
(3) He said: "The central and only point that was remaining late on being discussed on Sunday night – and by the way I left before midnight – was this highly technical and legalistic argument of the wording on exemplary damages.
(4) And it continues today, the discourse and the amiable discord, by turns legalistic, linguistic, poetic, artistic, metaphysical, practical, transcendental, earthy, comedic.
(5) Though he has presented a plan that would cut taxes for the richest Americans, in May he said: “ For the wealthy, I think, frankly, it’s going to go up .” Hillary Clinton “She’s a world-class liar; just look at her pathetic email server statements, or her phony landing ... in Bosnia where she said she was under attack and the attack turned out to be young girls handing her flowers.” – 22 June, New York City Clinton has answered questions about the private email server she used as secretary of state with careful, legalistic language.
(6) O’Donnell also advised against appointing judges or lawyers who would adopt a “legalistic” focus.
(7) Baum argues that, while informed consent promotes respect for patient autonomy and increases understanding of the illness and treatment, it is chiefly a legalistic device to shift unpleasant physician responsibilities onto the patient and will result in fewer patients entering clinical trials because of negative attitudes induced by uncertainty of treatment and diminished confidence in the physician.
(8) We're not talking legalistically now; I just want the facts.
(9) In 2011, in United States v Jones , the justices exhibited two opposing visions of what a constitutional court should be – a technical legalistic court, and a broad constitutional-vision court.
(10) Definitions of appropriate mechanisms of self-regulation within an increasingly legalistic environment are discussed.
(11) In addition, the principles implicitly reverse those important principles that have guided our society and the clinical process for more than a century; namely, a shift from a "therapeutic state" to a "legalistic state", the roles of institutions in our society, and the adultomorphization of adolescence.
(12) Over the past four years Medvedev has done nothing to dispel the impression that he is anything other than a useful seatwarmer, his time in the Kremlin a legalistic blip in an epoch of endless Putin rule.
(13) MP hits back after Sir Philip Green calls BHS collapse report 'bizarre' Read more Wright said: “This legalistic opinion doesn’t question the facts of the unanimously agreed select committee report but it does mirror Sir Philip’s litany of excuses for the collapse of BHS and for his delay in ‘sorting’ the BHS pension deficit.” Frank Field, the chair of the work and pensions committee who co-chaired the BHS inquiry with Wright and is also sponsoring the motion, is singled out for particular criticism by Green’s lawyers for jumping to conclusions “before he had heard all of the evidence”.
(14) Workplace smoking deterrents are shown to involve three different types of strategies: 1) legalistic approaches use policies and rules to restrict or foreclose smoking on the job; 2) economic strategies create incentives and disincentives, often through the employee health benefit plan; and 3) educational programs seek to motivate smokers to quit and to supply them with information and skill that may facilitate that process.
(15) And it was this legalistic distinction that meant he was now trapped by the inflexibility of Australia’s byzantine migration laws.
(16) The accusations are worded in pretty strong terms, even if the language does not appear to be overly-legalistic.
(17) There is a great danger that low expectations will be baked into this process and that these giant jamborees will start to resemble trade negotiations, notorious in diplomatic circles for getting bogged down in legalistic haggling and stubborn brinkmanship.
(18) The model chosen for this new system of safeguards is far from a thorough-going legalistic model.
(19) However, Schmidt said Google's pledges on social responsibility were not incompatible with a legalistic approach to paying taxes: "I do not agree with this and the reason is that at least under American law we have a fiduciary responsibility to our shareholders to account for things properly, so if we were, for example, to just arbitrarily decide to pay a different tax rate than we were required to, a more favourable one for example to a particular country, how would we account for that?
(20) But the committee reserved its strongest criticisms for Miller's attitude towards the inquiry, saying she chose to prevaricate and use legalistic language instead of directly answering questions.