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New Light

New Light proper noun: a relatively progressive or less traditional religious movement, especially (historical) the party within the 18th-century Scottish Secession Church which adopted Voluntary views of the relations of church and state; or the Socinianizing party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century.

Proper noun

New Light

  1. A relatively progressive or less traditional religious movement, especially (historical) the party within the 18th-century Scottish Secession Church which adopted Voluntary views of the relations of church and state; or the Socinianizing party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century.
    • An Antiburgher meeting house was erected at Blacks-well in 1761, and a New Light Burgher house, near the church, towards the end of last century.1835, The New Statistical Account of Scotland, page 289
    • [The Public Universal Friend] was born into a Quaker family in Rhode Island but was disowned in 1776 for joining the New Light Baptists.1995, Hugh Barbour, Christopher Densmore, Elizabeth H. Moger, Nancy C. Sorel, Alson D. Van Wagner, Arthur J. Worrall, Quaker Crosscurrents: Three Hundred Years of Friends in the New York Yearly...

Noun

New Light (plural New Lights)

  1. A member of such a religious movement.

Examples of New Light in a sentence

  • In Virginia, Samuel Davies, a New Light Presbyterian, and his followers had the greatest impact.2006, Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marie Cantlon, Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, Indiana...
  • Because many of the New Light Baptist churches were not recognized by the Old Light Baptists, these endorsements were often impossible to obtain.2012, Michael I. Meyerson, Endowed by Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America, Yale University Press, →ISBN:

Forms of New Light

pluralNew Lights

Words formed from New Light

Words that rhyme with New Light

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Questions about New Light

What does New Light mean?
New Light means a relatively progressive or less traditional religious movement, especially (historical) the party within the 18th-century Scottish Secession Church which adopted Voluntary views of the relations of church and state; or the Socinianizing party in the Church of Scotland in the 18th century.
How do you use New Light in a sentence?
In Virginia, Samuel Davies, a New Light Presbyterian, and his followers had the greatest impact.
What part of speech is New Light?
New Light can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near New Light in the dictionary

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  3. New Leipzig
  4. New Lexington
  5. New Leyte
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  8. New Lighters
  9. New Lights
  10. New Lisbon
  11. New London

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