Sabbatarianism
Americannoun
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Christianity. strict observance of Sunday as a day of rest, reflection, and worship in celebration of Christ's resurrection.
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Christianity. observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week, as the Sabbath.
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In the United States, Catholics were never the great proponents of Sabbatarianism, observing Sunday as a special day, for worship or rest.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2013
Some groups may not even have a concept of Sabbatarianism.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2013
Sabbatarianism is peculiarly an American and British institution; and this fact justifies the position that it is by no means a necessary condition of the security, or even the welfare, of civilised nations.
From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Frederic May Holland
In the powerful picture of a Sunday evening in London, “gloomy, close, and stale,” which he afterwards drew in Little Dorrit, he almost seems to hold Sabbatarianism and the weather responsible for one another.
From Dickens English Men of Letters by Sir Adolphus William Ward
Rejoicing in deliverance from Sabbatarianism, he generally spent the morning in a long walk, and the rest of the day was devoted to non-collegiate reading.
From Born in Exile by George Gissing
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