Campbellite
Americannoun
Sensitive Note
A term of mild contempt, Campbellite is also rejected by those to whom the term applies. These Christians prefer to associate themselves with the teachings of Christ, rather than the teachings of Alexander Campbell.
Etymology
Origin of Campbellite
Example Sentences
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At 19 she was a sophisticated young lady who had been to Nashville, read the works of James Oliver Curwood. and belonged to the fashionable Campbellite Church.
From Time Magazine Archive
He attended Hiram College, a Campbellite institution, kept detailed diaries in which he developed grandiose poetic projects, studied the Bible and Poe, aspired to be both a major prophet and an independent thinker.
From Time Magazine Archive
It had much in common, too, with the great Campbellite movement, which antedated it only by five or ten years, and from which it received a large number of important accessions.
From The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It by R. W. Beers
Lin had joined the Campbellite Church for the reason that it was the furthest from the Baptist belief, so she claimed.
From Watch Yourself Go By by Ben W. Warden
We passed through a well-wooded country—pines and post oaks—the road bad: crossed the river Trinity at 12 noon, and dined at the house of a disreputable looking individual called a Campbellite minister, at 4.30 p.m.
From Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 by Arthur James Lyon Fremantle
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