Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The tenets or practices of the Sabbatarians.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The tenets of Sabbatarians.
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Examples
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We are specially struck with the reference to theft; while no less noteworthy is the absence of that sabbatarianism, which is the "moral" of the nursery tale.
Moon Lore Timothy Harley
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Such stern sabbatarianism was once the norm on the Isle of Lewis, where the dominant sect is the Free Presbyterians.
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Wittenberg itself, Andrew Karlstadt (or Carlstadt) promoted a further movement against the Mass and, on the strength of the Old Testament attacked images and called for a stricter sabbatarianism, so that signs of the later Puritanism were already visible.
CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968
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He took sabbatarianism as a type of the things that should be set at nought.
De Profundis Oscar Wilde 1877
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