Bourignianadj.
/bʊˈrɪnɪən/ Church History.
Of or derived from Antoinette Bourignon, an enthusiast of Flanders in the 17th cent., who held that the Christian religion consists in a certain inward feeling and divine impulse, rather than in knowledge and practice.
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1836 Penny Cycl. V. 290 Under the name of the Bourignian Doctrine, it is..renounced by candidates for holy orders in the Church of Scotland.
Derivatives
Bouˈrignianism n.
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1697 State Philadelphia Society 30 Since these Sheets were gone to the Press there came to my Hand a Piece, call'd Bourignianism Detected.
Bou'rˈignonism n.
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1884 Brit. & Foreign Evangelical Rev. Apr. 255 Dr. George Gordon of Aberdeen was deposed..for holding the principles of Bourignonism.
Bou'rignonist n.
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1884 Brit. & Foreign Evangelical Rev. Apr. 255 The Aberdeen Bourignonist was deposed.
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