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Sabbatarian

noun
1.
One who observes Saturday as the Sabbath (as in Judaism).





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"Sabbatarian" Quotes from Famous Books



... from without of some formal compliances with the externals of religion while I know that the meaning and spirit of them cannot as yet be understood. Can there be conceived anything more formal, more mischievous, than inculcating a rigid Sabbatarian view of the Lord's Day upon a people who don't know anything about the Cross and the Resurrection? Time enough to talk about the observance when the people have some knowledge of the vital living truth ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge
... in New England during my college days at Harvard, when Parker Pillsbury and Stephen Foster used to saw wood and blow horns on the steps of the meeting-houses during service, in order to free their consciences "and protest against the Sabbatarian laws." ...
— Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) • William Henry Hurlbert
... gate and a flower-garden, and on to another lawn verging on the shrubberies. Joan and Nancy were employed here in putting tennis balls into a hole with the handles of walking sticks. Cicely rebuked them, for, according to his lights, the Squire was a strict Sabbatarian. ...
— The Squire's Daughter - Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons • Archibald Marshall


Words linked to "Sabbatarian" :   Sabbath, Judaism, religious person


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