English Explanatory Dictionary

Beaconite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A supporter of English Quaker Isaac Crewdson and his book A Beacon to the Society of Friends, which claimed that too much emphasis was placed by Quakers on the Inner Light at the expense of Biblical authority.

Word forms

Beaconite Beaconites

Etymology

From beacon + -ite.

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