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Adullamite|əˈdʌləmaɪt|
[f. Adullam, name of a place in the tribe of Judah, where there was a noted cave, + -ite.]
1. prop. An inhabitant of Adullam.
1382Wyclif Gen. xxxviii. 12 Yras the sheepherd of the flok, Odollamyte in Tampnas. 1611Ibid. He and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
2. a. A frequenter of the cave of Adullam. fig. A nickname applied in 1866 to certain members of the British House of Commons, who seceded from the Liberal party then in power, from dissatisfaction with their attempt to carry a measure of Parliamentary Reform. The name originated with an expression in a speech by Mr. Bright; see quot. 18661. More widely, a member of a dissenting political group.
[Cf. Bible 1 Sam. xxii. 1, 2. 1834 Examiner 14 Dec. 794/2 Perhaps, he will show how David, supported by the ragamuffins of the cave of Adullam, prevailed against the King,..but he must admit that the Adullamites respected the person of the King, though they disregarded his opinions. 1866Bright Sp. (1876) 349 The right hon. gentleman is the first of the new party who has expressed his great grief, who has retired into what may be called his political Cave of Adullam, and he has called about him ‘every one that was in distress and every one that was discontented.’] 1866Pall Mall G. No. 440, 66/1 The other leading Adullamites. 1880McCarthy Hist. our Own Times IV. l. 65 The little third party were at once christened the Adullamites, and the name still survives and is likely long to survive its old political history. 1981Age (Melbourne) 24 Oct., Don Chipp is an Adullamite. And the Democrats are, in the biblical sense, ‘everyone in distress, in debt, and discontented’.
b. attrib. or as adj. Of or pertaining to the seceders of 1866. Also transf., esp. of other political dissenters; radical, unorthodox.
1880J. McCarthy Hist. own Times IV. li. 77 [Lord Derby] had at once invited the leading members of the Adullamite party to accept places in his Administration. 1963Times Lit. Suppl. 10 May 348/3 The statesman, the politician, the historian..is also the youthful war correspondent..and the prolific journalist of the Adullamite 1930s. 1982Guardian 31 July 8/1 A series of opinion poll results which suggested the relegation of the Conservative Party to an Adullamite rump. |