English Explanatory Dictionary

Old Light

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A relatively traditional, conservative religious movement, especially (historical) the religious movement consisting of the seceders from the Church of Scotland who continued to hold unchanged the principle of the connection between church and state, the position maintained by the first seceders in 1733.
noun
  1. A member of such a religious movement.

Word forms

Old Light Old Lights

Derived words

Old Lighter
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