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Anabaptism

WordNet
An Anabaptist meeting in a house in Amsterdam where Anabaptism is practiced, 1535. With caption in two lines.
An Anabaptist meeting in a house in Amsterdam where Anabaptism is practiced, 1535. With caption in two lines.
  1. (n) Anabaptism
    a Protestant movement in the 16th century that believed in the primacy of the Bible, baptised only believers, not infants, and believed in complete separation of church and state
Illustrations
An Anabaptist meeting in a home where Anabaptism is practiced. Without the verse. No text on the reverse.
An Anabaptist meeting in a home where Anabaptism is practiced. Without the verse. No text on the reverse.
An Anabaptist meeting in a home where Anabaptism is practiced. Without the verse. Print cut from the book, with text on the reverse.
An Anabaptist meeting in a home where Anabaptism is practiced. Without the verse. Print cut from the book, with text on the reverse.
An Anabaptist meeting in a home where Anabaptism is practiced. Print cut from the book. Without the verse below the performance.
An Anabaptist meeting in a home where Anabaptism is practiced. Print cut from the book. Without the verse below the performance.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Anabaptism
    The doctrine of the Anabaptists.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) anabaptism
    A second baptism; rebaptism.
  2. (n) anabaptism
    [capitalized] The doctrine or practices of the Anabaptists.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L. anabaptismus, Gr. 'anabaptismo`s: cf. F. anabaptisme,. See Anabaptize

Usage in literature

His crime, to be sure, was anabaptism, the most deadly offence in the calendar. "The Rise of the Dutch Republic, Volume I.(of III) 1555-66" by John Lothrop Motley

I do not propose to trace his evolution from Anabaptism to Agnosticism. "The Book-Bills of Narcissus" by Le Gallienne, Richard

One sees here something like a French Quakerism, but with ingredients from older Anabaptism. "The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660" by David Masson

His theory of property, and his study of the character of Christ, had led him to the near confines of Anabaptism. "The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3)" by James Anthony Froude

For the first few years of its existence Anabaptism remained true to its original theologico-ethical principles. "German Culture Past and Present" by Ernest Belfort Bax

One of the best historians of the Reformation, Walter Koehler, calls Erasmus one of the spiritual fathers of Anabaptism. "Erasmus and the Age of Reformation" by Johan Huizinga

The person commissioned to present it was a poor young man, suspected of Anabaptism, and a refugee from France. "The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 9" by Various

The government put down Anabaptism, as a modern government might stamp out Anarchism. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8" by Various

Moreover, he had long been drifting away from the creed of his early childhood, the Anabaptism of his parents. "Vondel's Lucifer" by Joost van den Vondel

Anabaptism, divergencies in direction of, in Mass., 267. "The Beginners of a Nation" by Edward Eggleston