familist
- noun
- Archaic
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familista
- In 1608, the ex-Brownist Henoch Clapham published a farcical dialogue in which a young seeker encounters a Familist on his travels.
- Familist confession
- Familist heresy
- Familist belief
Examples
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The verse was a favorite of English Familists and had appeared in at least two other sources from the 1570s.
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Resting in a local alehouse, the seeker and the Familist discuss the nature of sin and human perfection.
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Parallel accusations appear in other Familist sources.
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Even in prison, he supposed, Familists lived like kings.
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But were Familists really deviant in their private faith?
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According to Marsh, the uncomplicated statement was likely a coded admission of Familist belief.
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Similarly, the Wisbech confession is as much about Bourne as it is about the Familist errors it sets out to expose.
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The assumption was that the marrow of Familist belief was little more than a pastiche of old heresies.
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There are many similarities between the anonymous Temporis Filia Veritas and other explicitly Familist works.
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In 1608, a seeker met a familist who shared insights about the mystical teachings of their sect.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Familist first named a member of the 'Family of Love', a small Christian group active in the 1500s in Europe. It comes from family, a word that meant 'household', so a familist was someone belonging to that close, family-like religious group.
