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noun
1.
a person who observes the seventh day of the week, Saturday, as the Sabbath.
2.
a person who adheres to or favors a strict observance of Sunday.
adjective
3.
of or pertaining to the Sabbath and its observance.
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Sabbatarian
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| opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England. |
| (used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English.) |
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Word Origin & History
sabbatarian
1620, "a Christian unusually strict about Sabbath observation," from L. Sabbatarius (adj.), from Sabbatum (see Sabbath). Meaning "member of a Christian sect which maintained the Sabbath should be observed on the seventh day" is attested from 1645; earlier sabbatary (1596).
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