unionist
noun
a person whose activities or beliefs are characterized by unionism.
unionistic
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a word derived from
unionist.
Example Sentences
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S. S. Schmucker's ambition was to transmogrify the Lutheran Church into an essentially unionistic Reformed body.
From American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod by F. (Friedrich) Bente
Thus, in the course of years, the unionistic Lutherans multiplied, while the Reformed radicals decreased within the General Synod.
From American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by F. (Friedrich) Bente
It was a unionistic document sacrificing Lutheranism doctrinally as well as practically.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente
His policy was in keeping with its unionistic traditions of "agreeing to disagree and not to settle disputed points, but to omit them and declare them free—quieta non movere et mota quiescere!"
From American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by F. (Friedrich) Bente
Thus, then, though formally acknowledging the Augustana and denying the right "to alter, amend, or curtail the Confession itself," the Pittsburgh compromise cannot but be viewed as a distinctly unionistic and anti-Lutheran document.
From American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by F. (Friedrich) Bente
