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Anabaptist

(an′ə bap′tist)

noun

a member of a radical 16th-cent. sect of the Reformation originating in Switzerland, often persecuted because they opposed the taking of oaths, infant baptism, military service, and the holding of public office

Origin: ModL anabaptista < LL(Ec) anabaptismus < Gr(Ec) anabaptismos, second baptism < anabaptizein < ana-, again + baptizein, baptize

adjective

of this sect

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Anabaptism noun

See Anabaptist in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A member of a radical movement of the 16th-century Reformation that viewed baptism solely as an external witness to a believer's conscious profession of faith, rejected infant baptism, and believed in the separation of church from state, in the shunning of nonbelievers, and in simplicity of life.

Origin:

Origin: From Late Greek anabaptizein, to baptize again

Origin: : Greek ana-, ana-

Origin: + Greek baptizein, to baptize (from baptein, to dip)

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