Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A second baptism; rebaptism.
- noun [capitalized] The doctrine or practices of the Anabaptists.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The doctrine of the Anabaptists.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Protestant movement in the 16th century that believed in the primacy of the Bible, baptised only believers, not infants, and believed in complete separation of church and state
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Examples
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Among the great and little vulgar may be found pious herb-women, Molinist duchesses, scrupulous seamstresses who would go to the stake for anabaptism, devout hackney-coachmen, most determined in the cause of Luther or of
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His denial of the tripersonality of the Godhead and the eternity of the Son, along with his anabaptism, made his system abhorrent to Catholics and Protestants alike, in spite of his intense Biblicism, his passionate devotion to the person of Christ, and his Christocentric scheme of the universe.
Savonarola, Tyndale, Servetus, Bruno Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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His denial of the tripersonality of the Godhead and the eternity of the Son, along with his anabaptism, made his system abhorrent to Catholics and Protestants alike, in spite of his intense Biblicism, his passionate devotion to the person of Christ, and his Christocentric scheme of the universe.
Archive 2005-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
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He says: "Since the alleged infant baptism is no baptism, those who now receive water-baptism according to the institution of Christ cannot be charged with anabaptism."
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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Moreover, at the same moment, she sent orders that a like punishment should be inflicted upon another person then in a Flemish prison, for the crime of anabaptism.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Moreover, at the same moment, she sent orders that a like punishment should be inflicted upon another person then in a Flemish prison, for the crime of anabaptism.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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His crime, to be sure, was anabaptism, the most deadly offence in the calendar.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 07: 1561-62 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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His crime, to be sure, was anabaptism, the most deadly offence in the calendar.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Moreover, at the same moment, she sent orders that a like punishment should be inflicted upon another person then in a Flemish prison, for the crime of anabaptism.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 10: 1566, part I John Lothrop Motley 1845
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His crime, to be sure, was anabaptism, the most deadly offence in the calendar.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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