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Definition of Separatists
1. separatist [n] - See also: separatist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Separatists
Literary usage of Separatists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Communistic Societies of the United States: From Personal Visit and by Charles Nordhoff (1875)
"Zoar is the home of a communistic society who call themselves " separatists,"
and who founded the village in 1817, and have here become quite wealthy. ..."
2. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"The opponents of the Puritans pointed to the separatists, and cried, " See whither
your anarchical doctrines are leading ! " and in their eagerness to clear ..."
3. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1904)
"While engaged in these negotiations the separatists were further perplexed by
news of ... The desire of the Leyden separatists, however, to preserve their ..."
4. American Communities: Brief Sketches of Economy, Zoar, Bethel, Aurora, Amana by William Alfred Hinds (1878)
"Both the followers of George Hipp and of Joseph Baume ler were called separatists,
but the latter were separatists in a double sense, renouncing allegiance ..."
5. American Communities: Brief Sketches of Economy, Zoar, Bethel, Aurora, Amana by William Alfred Hinds (1878)
"... Ripp and of Joseph Baume ler were called separatists, but the latter were
separatists in a double sense, renouncing allegiance to both church and state, ..."
6. Narrative and Critical History of America by Justin Winsor (1886)
"A scheme was devised and entered upon in England in the interest of substantially
the same class of men known as separatists and Nonconformists, ..."
7. The Pilgrim Republic: An Historical Review of the Colony of New Plymouth by John Abbot Goodwin (1888)
"Sufferings of the separatists. — Robert Brown. — Persecutions. WHEN, in 1603,
James I. became king of England, he found his Protestant subjects divided into ..."
8. German Religious Life in Colonial Times by Lucy Forney Bittinger (1906)
"CHAPTER II THE separatists THE first German emigration to America was of ...
The separatists were of two sorts: those who separated themselves from the ..."
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