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Separatist   Listen
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Separatist  n.  One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a dissenter; a nonconformist; a schismatic; a sectary. "Heavy fines on divines who should preach in any meeting of separatist."






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"Separatist" Quotes from Famous Books



... sought shelter in the distant settlements—deeply despondent over the humiliating failure of his plans and the even more depressing defection of his erstwhile friends and supporters The revolutionary designs and separatist tendencies which he still harbored were soon to involve him in a secret conspiracy to give over the State of Franklin into the protection of a ...
— The Conquest of the Old Southwest • Archibald Henderson

... little haughtily, "that I am not of the Separatist Church, nor agree in all its teachings. The Standishes were ever good Catholics, since they came over from Normandy with William the Baseborn, and if I hold not to the religion of my fathers I accept no other, nor can I ever esteem lightly ...
— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin

... 4. The Separatist migration from England was followed in a few years by a great exodus of Puritans, who planted towns along the coast to the north of Plymouth, and obtained a charter of government and a great strip of land, and founded ...
— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... Donatism a nationalist or separatist movement directed against the Roman occupation? That would be to transport quite modern ideas into antiquity. No more in Augustin's time than in our own was there such a thing as African nationality. But if the sectaries had no least thought of separating ...
— Saint Augustin • Louis Bertrand

... ovations similar to those in the undoubtedly dynastic provinces. And not only the Emperor, but von Seidler returned in triumph, firmly convinced that everything stated in Parliament or written in the papers respecting the separatist tendencies of the South Slavs was pure invention and nonsense, and that they would never agree to a separation from the ...
— In the World War • Count Ottokar Czernin



Words linked to "Separatist" :   church, exponent, separatism, separate, white separatist, advocator, independent, separationist, breakaway, church service, advocate



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