Of or relating to the religious doctrines of Martin Luther, especially the doctrine of justification by faith alone.
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Of or relating to the Protestant denomination adhering to these doctrines.
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A member of the Lutheran Church.
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Of Martin Luther.
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Of his doctrines, esp. justification by faith.
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Designating or of the Protestant denomination founded by Luther.
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Any member of a Lutheran Church.
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Other Word Forms
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lutheran
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lutherans
Lutheran Sentence Examples
He was of "Pennsylvania-German" parentage, his name being originally Albrecht, and was educated in the Lutheran faith.
The liturgy of the Lutheran church of Russia has, since 1898, been based on his Liturgische Formulare (1872).
In the same year the Lutheran reformation took hold of him, and he began to issue appeals in prose and verse against the Mass and against the pope as antichrist.
His father, a Lutheran minister, died while he was yet a child, leaving a widow and three children.
In Germany the concessions made to the pope and the reservations maintained by him in the matter of taxes and benefices were deemed excessive, and the prolonged discontent which resulted was one of the causes of the success of the Lutheran Reformation.