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Mormonite, n. and a. Now rare.|ˈmɔːmənaɪt|
[f. the personal name Mormon (see Mormon) + -ite.]
a. n. A Mormon.
b. adj. Of or pertaining to the Mormons.
1831Columbian Reporter (Taunton, Mass.) 24 Aug. 1/5 The Mormonites. We learn..that this infatuated people are again in motion. 1833T. Hamilton Men & Manners in Amer. II. vii. 310 We passed several parties of what were called Mormonites. 1835C. Bradley Jrnl. 24 June in Ohio Archaeol. & Hist. Q. (1906) XV. 269 We have, too, a company of Mormanite missionaries aboard. 1859Mill Liberty iv. 164 The article of the Mormonite doctrine which is the chief provocative..is its sanction of polygamy. 1882Illustr. Mission. News Mar. 28 Meetings..to denounce Mormonite polygamy. 1947B. De Voto Across Wide Missouri 185 The ‘Mormonites’..had been driven into the unsettled lands of Clay County. 1958Mulder & Mortensen Among Mormons p. vi, Once the new church is founded the religious press is full of letters..about the Mormonites and their New Jerusalem. |