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Anabaptist
[ an-uh-bap-tist ]
noun
- a member or descendant of a member of any of various Christian sects formed in Europe after 1520 that denied the validity of infant baptism, baptized believers only, emphasized simplicity and nonviolence, and advocated social and economic reforms as well as the complete separation of church and state.
- Archaic. Baptist ( def 1 ).
adjective
- of or relating to Anabaptists or Anabaptism:
The book traces the origin of Anabaptist groups such as the Mennonites and Amish.
Anabaptist
/ ˌænəˈbæptɪst /
noun
- a member of any of various 16th-century Protestant movements that rejected infant baptism, insisted that adults be rebaptized, and sought to establish Christian communism
- a member of a later Protestant sect holding the same doctrines, esp with regard to baptism
adjective
- of or relating to these movements or sects or their doctrines
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Derived Forms
- ˌAnaˈbaptism, noun
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Other Words From
- An·a·bap·tism noun
- An·a·bap·tis·ti·cal·ly [an-, uh, -bap-, tis, -tik-lee], adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Anabaptist1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Anabaptist1
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Example Sentences
It is directly from them that the Anabaptist movement of history dates its origin.
The reformers were not tolerant; for a woman was burnt for Arianism in 1550 and a male Anabaptist in 1551.
He may have been engaged on his “Answer” to the “blasphemous cavillations” of an Anabaptist, his treatise on Predestination.
The Anabaptist whom Knox is discussing had been personally known to him, and had lucid intervals.
Thousands would go to see a Quaker hanged that would be indifferent to the fate of a Presbyterian or an Anabaptist.
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