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

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Other Word Forms

• Brownism
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of Brownist

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

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Example Sentences

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Brownist

Among the Brownists, besides Burton, Edwards names prominently "Katherine Chidley, an old Brownist, and her son, a young Brownist, a pragmatical fellow," who preached in London, and occasionally went on circuit into the country.

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

Mr. Masson also has something to say about everybody, from Wentworth to the obscurest Brownist fanatic who was so much as heard of in England during Milton's lifetime.

From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell

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 William Shakespeare

When Elizabeth died in 1603, the Brownist Puritans or Separatists were well established in Holland; they had been there twenty years.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Alice Morse Earle

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 David Hume

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