Brownist
noun
a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists
Brownism
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a word derived from
Brownist.
Example Sentences
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Papers of a different character—like the Boston Courier, representative of the party which included Everett and Winthrop—habitually charged the Republican party with John Brownism and disunionism.
From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam
For more than forty years before their migration to New England there had been in old England two clearly developed forms of Congregationalism, Brownism and Barrowism.
From The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Maria Louise Greene
The connecting link between Brownism and Barrowism, whose similarities and dissimilarities we shall consider together, or rather the connecting link between Robert Browne and Henry Barrowe, was another Cambridge student, John Greenwood.
From The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Maria Louise Greene
Another instance may be adduced of his Brownism in the following line:—'The war continued in an equilibration by alternate losses and advantages.'
From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
Nevertheless, amid all this apparent prevalence of Presbyterianism, there was a stubborn tradition in England of another set of antiprelatic views, long stigmatized by the nickname of Brownism, but known latterly as Independency or Congregationalism.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson
