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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the leaders in the Independent movement in England in the latter part of the sixteenth century.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1593.
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If by "barrowist" you mean that we reject the Cult of Obama, I agree.
Hot Air » Top Picks 2008
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Trivial inequalities of surface were arbitrarily cut down or built up and covered with leaves and pine-straw to disguise the fact, and whenever a tree or anything worth preserving stood in the way here came the loaded barrow and the barrowist, like a piece of artillery sweeping into action, and a fill undistinguishable from nature soon brought the path around the obstacle on what had been its lower side, to meander on at its unvarying rate of rise or fall as though nothing -- except the trees and wild flowers -- had happened since the vast freshets of the post-glacial period built the landscape.
The Amateur Garden George Washington Cable 1884
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