Unitarian

Meanings

Noun

• A Christian who does not believe in the traditional doctrine of the Trinity.
• A follower of Unitarian Universalism; or a member of a Unitarian Universalist Church in North America who adhered to, or identifies with, the Unitarian part of that church prior to consolidation in 1961.
• A Muslim, Jew or other kind of monotheist who is not a Christian.
• A member of a political movement advocating a unitary state (where a country is governed as one single unit), especially the Unitarios of nineteenth century Argentina (known as the Unitarian Party in English).

Adjective

• Pertaining to Unitarianism.

Origin

• Related to New Latin ūnitārius (from Latin ūnitās) . First documented as unitaria religio, in a decree of the Diet of Lécfalva (1600). In English since 1687