congregationalist
Americannoun
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a person, especially a member of the clergy, who adheres to congregationalism as a form of church government.
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a member of any congregation.
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Congregationalist, a member or minister of a Congregational church.
adjective
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relating or adhering to congregationalism as a form of church government.
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Congregationalist, relating or belonging to the movement that gave rise to the Congregational or Independent churches in England after the Protestant Reformation.
Example Sentences
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Born in 1934, she was raised as a Congregationalist Christian in Britain during a period that included the Great Depression and the Second World War.
From Washington Times • May 20, 2021
Though his lineage was Congregationalist and Baptist, he claimed Quaker ancestors.
From Washington Post • Nov. 12, 2020
It’s narrated by the dying Rev. John Ames, a Congregationalist pastor who reflects on his family history and the suffering and transcendence he has known in this “poor perishable world.”
From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2020
As far as the Federalists were concerned, the Congregationalist Yale College was going to be the only college in the state.
From Salon • Sep. 12, 2020
This led to a friendship with the stall-keeper, who was a Cornish man and a Calvinistic Baptist; and to a slight acquaintance with the policeman, who was a Congregationalist.
From The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. by Weylland, John Matthias
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