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Sabbatarian

Sabbatarian

9.9
A person who keeps Saturday as the Sabbath for religious reasons
  • noun
  • /ˌsæbəˈtɛəriən/
translation icon : sabatario
  • However, Sabbatarians, particularly Jews, are certainly a discrete and insular minority with a long history of prejudice.
  • religious exemptions for Sabbatarians

Examples

  • Sabbatarians, as a religious minority, certainly should constitute a suspect classification (although the Court has not decided cases this way).

    Academic text (1991)
  • Frankfurter weighed the disadvantage of the Sabbatarian against the state interest in a uniform day of rest and found in favor of the state.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Three victories in 1996 gave some of the Sabbatarian lawyers hope that the tide might finally be turning.

    Academic text (1998)
  • The next best solution, then, is to make religious exemptions for Sabbatarians mandatory.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Sabbatarians have not been deprived of access to the political process for approximately two centuries.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Similarly, the Jordan court believed that it was unreasonable for the Sabbatarian plaintiff to ask for a guarantee that she would never have to work on Saturday.

    Academic text (1991)
  • In the courts, this trend was symbolized by a major Supreme Court free exercise case, which granted Sabbatarians fired for reasons of conscience the right to unemployment benefits.

    Academic text (1998)
  • For example, a law that required employers to accommodate the religious practices only of Sabbatarians, but not those employees who observe other religious holidays, might be constitutionally unacceptable.

    Academic text (2010)
  • Though usually lacking the Sabbatarian rigor of their New England cousins, residents of Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina set the Lord's Day aside as a special one in the week.

    Academic text (2007)
  • Many Sabbatarians gather at their local synagogue every Saturday to observe the day of rest.

Surface Forms

Sabbatarian singular
Sabbatharians plural

Morphology

Sabbatarian = Sabbath (transparent) = sabbat + arian

The noun is an agentive/relational formation from the Sabbath base plus '-arian', so a person who observes or adheres to the Sabbath is directly inferable.

Etymology

Sabbatarian comes from Sabbath, the Hebrew Shabbat, meaning 'rest', together with the ending -arian that names a person who follows an idea. So a Sabbatarian is a person who keeps the Sabbath day of rest, often on Saturday.