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  • noun A member of the Exclusive Brethren.

Etymologies

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Darby +‎ -ite, after John Darby (evangelist) (1800-1882).

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Examples

  • This whole idea of 'The Rapture' actually is a kind of an artifact of, I think, of 19th Century, about 1840's, Darbyite thinking, in which he really ... people were inflamed, in the mid-1800's, with the idea of the 'Second Coming of Christ,' in England and in America.

    Interview with Stephen Larsen, author, THE FUNDAMENTALIST MIND 2008

  • This whole idea of 'The Rapture' actually is a kind of an artifact of, I think, of 19th Century, about 1840's, Darbyite thinking, in which he really ... people were inflamed, in the mid-1800's, with the idea of the 'Second Coming of Christ,' in England and in America.

    Printing: Interview with Stephen Larsen, author, THE FUNDAMENTALIST MIND 2008

  • She worked flannel petticoats for the Quashyboos — cotton night-caps for the Cocoanut Indians — painted handscreens for the conversion of the Pope and the Jews — sat under Mr. Rowls on Wednesdays, Mr. Huggleton on Thursdays, attended two Sunday services at church, besides Mr. Bawler, the Darbyite, in the evening, and all in vain.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Quashyboos -- cotton night-caps for the Cocoanut Indians -- painted handscreens for the conversion of the Pope and the Jews -- sat under Mr. Rowls on Wednesdays, Mr. Huggleton on Thursdays, attended two Sunday services at church, besides Mr. Bawler, the Darbyite, in the evening, and all in vain.

    Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • We listen with ears either hardened by modernist scepticism, or by a false literalism that has substituted Darbyite nonsense for the Apostolic faith, or reduced Scripture to delicate harmonizations.

    Glory to God for All Things fatherstephen 2010

  • The eschatology on which I was raised was a version of Darbyite Dispensationalism.

    Glory to God for All Things 2009

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