Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
Dunker .
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- noun an adherent of Baptistic doctrines (who practice baptism by immersion)
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Examples
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Hardworking and honest, a veteran of Gettysburg, a strong Dunkard Baptist, he had indebted himself to the Cranes to the tune of about $700, and his net earnings each year scarcely covered his meals and board.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Hardworking and honest, a veteran of Gettysburg, a strong Dunkard Baptist, he had indebted himself to the Cranes to the tune of about $700, and his net earnings each year scarcely covered his meals and board.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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This journal discloses also that they contributed to all these churches except the Dunkard and entertained nine ministers, some of them many times over, at Ferry Hill during
Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961
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The Blackfords entertained seven different ministers, two Episcopalian, two Presbyterian, and one Methodist, one Dunkard, and one German Reformed, at
Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961
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Blackford used Tunker and Dunkard interchangeably.
Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961
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The Blackfords were communicants of the Episcopal Church but the members of the family were such ardent church goers that they attended services at Dunkard, Baptist, Methodist,
Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961
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Our bivouac was immediately by the "Straw-stacks," which have been so generally referred to as landmarks in this battle, and which were located in the open ground near the forest which extended to the Dunkard church.
The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson Edward A. Moore
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The Youngs were of the Dunkard faith, a religious sect numerous in the vicinity.
Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden
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Up to this time, with the exception of a return of our battery to the Dunkard church, where we had fought the evening before, we had done nothing.
The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson Edward A. Moore
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Another spent twenty years in the Dunkard ministry, finally retiring to devote himself to lecturing on the New Thought.
A Book of Burlesques 1918
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