Brownist
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Origin of Brownist
C16: named after Robert Browne (?1550–1633), English Puritan
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“Why, Cousin Bess,” said I, “you shall be a Brownist in a week or twain.”
From Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Holt, Emily Sarah
That is what the Brownist Puritans, the precursors of the Plymouth Pilgrims, left England to secure.
From Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" by Curtis, George William
Here's a lousy jest! but, if I notch not that rogue Tom barber, that makes me look thus like a Brownist, hang me!
From Sir Thomas More by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
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
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
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