English Explanatory Dictionary

Newmanite

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A follower of the doctrines of John Henry Newman; hence, up to his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1845, a member of the Oxford movement.

Word forms

Newmanite Newmanites

Etymology

From Newman + -ite, after the prominent Tractarian John Henry Newman.

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