Simeonite

American  

[sim-ee-uh-nahyt] / ˈsɪm i əˌnaɪt /

noun

1. a member of the Israelite tribe of Simeon.

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Other Word Forms

• Simeonism noun

Etymology

Origin of Simeonite

< Late Latin Simeonītae (plural). See Simeon, -ite ¹

Example Sentences

For she knew now what she was over and above being a St. Simeonite, having asked Aunt Cordelia.

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Canon Butler was an evangelical clergyman of the Simeonite type, which flourished so intensely before and during the development of the High Church revival.

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Lord Beaconsfield lived to witness that great transformation in the Church of the High and Dry Pluralists and the Simeonite parsons, which he had himself so powerfully organised in Parliament, in society, and on the platform.

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The patronage was in the hands of the Simeonite trustees, and had been bought by them in the first fervour of the movement.

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Mr. Bartholomew's discovery of Samuel Butler's parody of the Simeonite tract throws a most interesting light upon a curious passage in THE WAY OF ALL FLESH, and it is a great pleasure to me to be able to give Butlerians the story of Mr. Bartholomew's "find" in his own words.

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