Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or characterized by separatism; schismatical.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to separatists; characterizing separatists; schismatical.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
separatists ;schismatical .
Etymologies
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Examples
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(October 1635) by the Massachusetts Court because of his persistence in advocating separatistic views deemed unsettling and dangerous, to escape deportation to England he betook himself (January 1636) to the wilderness, where he was hospitably entertained by the natives who gave him a tract of land for a settlement.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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Valdenström, who, notwithstanding their separatistic inclinations, work in union with the State Church in this matter.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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The reform movement now presented the spectacle of Rome's two most formidable opponents, the two most masterful minds and authoritative exponents of contemporary separatistic thought, meeting in open conflict, with the Lord's Supper as the gage of war.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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The Pietists were accused of false doctrines, contempt for public worship and the science of theology, and separatistic tendencies.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Through these simple words of Jesus, he came to a firm conviction that the practice of genuine love and oneness (without downplaying the importance of holiness-but reinterpreting it away from the legalistic and separatistic practices by which the fundamentalist movement had come to define it) is the final apologetic to a watching world of the reality of God and the truth that is found Jesus and the Gospel.
internetmonk.com 2010
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Schaeffer a sectarian at that point in his life-angry, separatistic, speaking out bluntly for what he called, "the visible purity of the church."
internetmonk.com 2010
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But, who cares about them and their sick and isolated separatistic propaganda, it's dying slowly, anyway ...
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But, who cares about them and their sick and isolated separatistic propaganda, it's dying slowly, anyway ...
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But, who cares about them and their sick and isolated separatistic propaganda, it's dying slowly, anyway ...
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Jewish humanity) created by the pairs of opposites, sees him as tending strongly towards a separatistic
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