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Familist

British

/ ˈfæmɪlɪst /

noun

a member of the Family of Love, a mystical Christian religious sect of the 16th and 17th centuries based upon love

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Familism

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One John Hetherington, a box-maker, had been a kind of Familist, but had recanted.

From The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 by David Masson

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