Definition of "solifidian" []

• A person who believes that faith alone (as opposed to good deeds) brings salvation. (noun)

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• "Unlike Newman, who aimed at reconciling differences, and to whom the Lutheran formula was but "a paradox or a truism", Ward repudiated the "solifidian" view as an outrage on the Divine sanctity; it was "a type of Antichrist", and in sound reason no better than Atheism."
• "How deeply the solifidian doctrine had penetrated into the very bosom of the church was revealed by the storminess of the debate."