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English
Etymology
From KJV + only + -er.
Noun
KJV-onlyer (plural KJV-onlyers)
- (informal) Someone who asserts that the King James Version of the Bible is superior to all other English translations.
1997 August 16, Trevor Peterson, “Re: Contradictions in the Bible”, in christnet.theology (Usenet):The meaning that can be derived from the word itself is "without error." In other words, the Bible was given without error of any sort. Now, excepting KJV-onlyers, most inerrantists would limit inerrancy to the original writings, none of which currently exist.
1997 October 13, Daniel Arseneault, “Re: Is The KJV Inspired?”, in alt.religion.christian.anabaptist.brethren (Usenet):(Seeing as how Erasmus was a Roman Catholic who set the Vulgate at a level where modern KJV-onlyers set it, he might have believed the Vulgate was perfect, so such texts absent from his Greek manuscripts probably were present in the original, in his thinking); […]
2004 January 14, Mark Sornson, “Re: Another troubling statement from "God's" organization - Can anyone confirm or deny?”, in alt.religion.jehovahs-witn (Usenet):[…] [As a side note, at least the first two in your list have people whose full-time job it is to hate them. I can't recall too many slams against the NASB, but I imagine that KJV-onlyers hate it.]