Brownist

British  

/ ˈbraʊnɪst /

noun

1. a person who supported the principles of church government advocated by Robert Browne and adopted in modified form by the Independents or Congregationalists

---

Other Word Forms

• Brownism noun

Etymology

Origin of Brownist

C16: named after Robert Browne (?1550–1633), English Puritan

Example Sentences

The Puritans were psalm-singers ever; and in Holland the Brownist division of the church came under strong influences from Geneva and Wittenberg, the birth-places of psalm-singing, that made them doubly fond of "worship in song."

From Sabbath in Puritan New England by Earle, Alice Morse

This man was a zealous Puritan, or rather a Brownist, a small sect, which afterwards increased, and received the name of "Independents."

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by Hume, David

Also, ‘A Dialogue between the Crosse in Cheap and Charing Crosse,’ 1641, which has also a woodcut representing the two crosses, while a Brownist and an Anabaptist converse about their demolition.

From The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress by Jackson, Mason

He would wish, though he be a Brownist, no neighbour of his should pay his tithes duly, if such suits held continual plea at Westminster.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

And't be any way, it must be with valour: for policy I hate; I had as lief be a Brownist as a politician.

From Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, William