Sabbatarianism

[sab-uh-tair-ee-uhn-iz-uhm]

noun

1. Christianity.,  strict observance of Sunday as a day of rest, reflection, and worship in celebration of Christ's resurrection.

2. 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.

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Some groups may not even have a concept of Sabbatarianism.

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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.

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Powerful pictures of the gloom of that British Sabbath which locked up everything "that could by any possibility afford relief to an overworked people," may be found in Little Dorrit; and the plot turns on the Sabbatarianism of a cruel fanatic who had made felony part of her religion.

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Owen complained in this pamphlet that Sabbatarianism denied "innocent and cheerful recreation to the labouring man"; and he spoke in public of the influence of religion on progress, with a hostility which sadly injured his popularity.

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