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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A member of a Mennonite sect which held that Judas and the murderers of Christ will probably be saved because of their ignorance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of rigid Anabaptists, which originated in 1637, and whose tenets were essentially the same as those of the Mennonists. In addition, however, they held that Judas and the murderers of Christ were saved. So called from the founder of the sect, Ucke Wallis, a native of Friesland.

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