Brewer's: Adiaphorists

Adiaph′orists

Followers of Melanchthon; moderate Lutherans, who hold that some of the dogmas of Luther are matters of indifference. (Greek, adiaphoros, indifferent.) —Macaulay: Essay, Burleigh.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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