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  • noun Plural form of Puseyite.

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Examples

  • To Dr. Pusey himself he could write a kindly and courteous letter; but on the platform, or in correspondence with friends, he could denounce 'Puseyites' in the roundest terms.

    Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

  • The party thus originating were called "Puseyites," as Dr. _Edward Pusey_ (1800-1882), the author of learned commentaries, and of works in other departments of divinity, was their acknowledged leader.

    Outline of Universal History George Park Fisher 1868

  • Further, they argue, quite rightly, that the State cannot adjust itself to all the thousand and one differences between the Protestant sects; from Protestant pantheism, which is perhaps the largest, to Wesleyans and Baptists and Puseyites and Plymouth Brethren and Seventh Monarchy Men and Peculiar People-----nor can I omit from the list a delightful sect peculiar to the little village of Loxwood, which mourns at a birth and rejoices at a burial.

    Belloc Speaks - The Schools 2007

  • These gentlemen have become Puseyites already, and are, my friend states, in the high way to Catholicism.

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • And there his high priest is supposed to be one wicked infamous Pusey, and his worshippers are wicked infamous Puseyites.

    Castle Richmond 2004

  • Wesleyan – Methodists he has something in common, but his soul trembles in agony at the iniquities of the Puseyites.

    Barchester Towers 2004

  • We should be traitors in every sense of the word if we consented to give it up to be rifled by the sacrilegious hands of the Puseyites, concealed papists,

    Myths About the King James Bible by David Cloud True Scholars Reject the Recieved Text 1986

  • Count De Montalambert, in his recently published 'Letter to the Rev.Mr. Neale on the Architectural, Artistical, and Archaeological Movements of the Puseyites,' enters his 'protest' against the most unwarranted and unjustifiable assumption of the name of Catholic by people and things belonging to the actual Church of England.

    An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Charles Southwell

  • Rome, and with the sense of her 150,000,000 of children, to dispossess you (Puseyites) of this name.

    An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Charles Southwell

  • The gap is vast, and there is _no danger whatever_ of our becoming too simple; yet this fanatical aim will be so surely imputed to us (in days when such men as Lord John Manners in Politics and the Puseyites in Church are afloat) that it is not needless to disown it even to candid and strong-headed hearers.

    Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking

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