Darbyite

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English

Etymology

Darby +‎ -ite, after John Darby (evangelist) (1800-1882).

Pronunciation

Noun

Darbyite (plural Darbyites)

  1. A member of the Exclusive Brethren.
    • 1873, The United Presbyterian magazine, page 501:
      The Darbyite quietly assumes that Christ is not ashamed to call his party brethren, and that He would be thoroughly ashamed to apply the name to any one else.
    • 1875, James Grant, The Plymouth Brethren: Their History and Heresies, page 89:
      The "sad step," Mr. Howard states, was that of belonging to a "gathering" at Peckham, whose members had all been turned out from the fold of the Brethren by the act of a small clique of leading Darbyites.
    • 2011, Jozef Bátora, Monika Mokre, Culture and External Relations: Europe and Beyond, page 30:
      The Darbyites argued against the war on national, cultural, grounds and the Cobdenites on international and civilizational.

Translations

Adjective

Darbyite (comparative more Darbyite, superlative most Darbyite)

  1. Pertaining to Darbyism.
    • 1968, Frederick Roy Coad, A History of the Brethren Movement:
      Government restrictions imposed on the independent churches of Germany during the Nazi régime led to a forced union of Darbyite, Baptist and independent Brethren churches in a Bund, together with some other minor groups.
    • 1987, Fides Et Historia:
      In typical Darbyite fashion, Franson preached that a pretribulationist secret rapture would precede the appearance of the personal Antichrist.
    • 2016, Tim LaHaye, Who Will Face the Tribulation?::
      The "conservatives,", those who accept neither the "higher criticism" of the Bible nor the Darbyite doctrine, are ignored completely.

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