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Nicholaitan

Nicholaitan is the alternative form of Nicolaitan.

Meaning of Nicolaitan

Noun

Nicolaitan (plural Nicolaitans)

  1. A member of an early Christian sect (Nicolaism), said to participate in certain pagan ceremonies.
    • nicholaitan, (g) an heretike, like Nicholas, who helde that wiues ſhould bee common to all alike.[1604, Robert Cawdrey, “nicholaitan”, in A Table Alphabeticall, […]

Forms of Nicholaitan

pluralNicholaitans

Questions about Nicholaitan

What is Nicholaitan the alternative form of?
Nicholaitan is the alternative form of Nicolaitan.

Words near Nicholaitan in the dictionary

  1. Nichiren
  2. Nichiren Buddhism
  3. Nichol
  4. Nichola
  5. nicholaism
  6. Nicholaitan
  7. Nicholaitans
  8. Nicholas
  9. Nicholas County
  10. nicholas-name
  11. Nicholases

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Nicholaitan (page history and authors); Nicolaitan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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