The meaning of Marcionite

noun

An adherent of the rigorously ascetic sect founded in rome in the 2nd century a.d. by marcion of sinope, who rejected the authority of the old and new testaments (with the exception of ten of the epistles of st paul and an edited recension of the gospel of st luke) on the grounds that the god to which they referred was a god of law rather than the god of love.

adjective

Of or relating to the marcionites.