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new light
[light n. 6 d.]
1. a. Novel religious views or doctrines (see light n. 6 d).
1650–1785 [see light n. 6 d]. 1806T. G. Fessenden Democracy Unveiled ii. 181 Altho' not bless'd with second sight, Divine inflation, or new light.
b. Any of the religious sects or doctrines of the ‘New Lights’.
1750J. Birket Voy. N. Amer. (1916) 4 There is two Presbyterian meeting houses here, one of the Newlight, and one of the old. 1819J. G. Lockhart Peter's Lett. to his Kinsfolk III. lxii. 100 The Old Light Antiburghers enjoy the ministrations of..Dr. McCrie... The New Light..are ruled in spiritualibus by Dr. Jamieson. 1850W. H. Foote Sk. Virginia 373 In his discourse he..read a hue and cry, for the arrest of ‘the new light’. 1874[see light n. 6 d]. 1943J. Macleod Scottish Theology 229 As a term, New Light came especially to be used in connection with the change that took place in the thinking of the Seceders towards the end of the 18th century.
2. A person holding ‘new lights’ or novel (religious) doctrines; a revivalist; a member of any of various schisms from several Protestant churches in Scotland and N. Amer. during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
a1734R. Wodrow Analecta (1842) II. 169 You have brought in a stranger, one of the neu-lights, among us. 1743J. Hempstead Diary 30 Mar. (1901) 407 All come to settle the disorders that are subsisting among those called New Lights which follow Mr Davenport. 1750J. Birket Voy. N. Amer. (1916) 22 There is Nineteen different places of Worship in the Town (to wit) thirteen of the Independents Presbyterians & newlights &Ca. 1796Grose Dict. Vulgar T. (ed. 3) New Light, one of the new light; a methodist. 1807R. McNemar Kentucky Revival 29 These..taught as an important truth, that the will of God, was made manifest to each individual..by an inward light... Hence they received the name of ‘New-Lights’. 1828J. McGregor Sk. Maritime Colonies Brit. Amer. II. 465 Let us leave abstract points of Christian doctrine to theological disputants, and the raving of new lights. 1847R. Davidson Hist. Presbyterian Church in Kentucky 219 In the Great Revival, Mr. Stone was conspicuous..[in] the subsequent formation of societies, known under the various names of New Lights, Christians, Arians, Marshallites, and Stoneites. 1872[see hickory 4 a]. 1888J. M. Barrie Auld Licht Idylls iii. 60 The congregation..had split, and as the New Lights (now the U.P.'s) were in the majority, the Old Lights..had to retire to the community. 1949William & Mary Q. Jan. 43 The New Brunswick group, the ‘new lights’, wished to give eloquence in preaching precedence over formal knowledge. 1959Chambers's Encycl. XII. 309/1 The original seceders..formed themselves into a body independent of the state church in 1733. The new group of separatists were divided in 1747 by the anti-Jacobite burgess oath into burghers and anti⁓burghers. Subsequently each of these bodies split into Old and New Lights (1799 and 1806 respectively).
b. transf. = Campbellite 2.
1877Bull. U.S. Nat. Museum No. 9. 21 Pomoxys annularis... Throughout Kentucky it is known as the ‘New Light’, and sometimes as ‘Campbellite’. 1884[see Campbellite 2].
3. attrib. or as adj.
a. Belonging to or holding the views of the ‘New Lights’.
1732Swift Advantages repealing Sacramental Test 10 The Quarrel between Old and New Light-Men, is managed with more Rage and Rancour, than any other Dispute. 1742J. Hempstead Diary 20 Dec. (1901) 402, 2 of them Newlight Exhorters begun their meeting. 1744[see light n. 6 d]. 1793‘T. Thrum’ Look before ye Loup 3, I took the advice of a newlight neighbour upo' this knotty point. 1807R. McNemar Kentucky Revival 46 Taking what is called the New-light doctrine, as the rudiments of divine truth, they proceeded to consider the nature of justification, reconciliation to God, etc. 1837W. Jenkins Ohio Gazetteer 373 There are in this country..eight christian (or newlight)..and five dunkard churches. 1874[see light n. 6 d]. 1883P. Schaff Relig. Encycl. II. 1634/2 [New England divines] announced a few principles, which were called ‘New-Light Divinity’, or ‘New Divinity’. 1949Canad. Hist. Rev. Mar. 75 Henry Alline, the New Light evangelist, was shattering the less sedate Dissenting congregations of the Nova Scotian out-ports.
b. transf. Novel, newfangled.
1831J. N. Catron Let. 1 May in N. N. Scott Mem. H. L. White (1856) xii. 249 A union of N. Light Federalists with Kentucky republicans..cannot last. 1833J. B. Wyeth Oregon 4 What the new-light doctrine of Phrenology calls the disposition bump of Inhabitiveness. 1839Spirit of Times 26 Oct. 399/3 Abbreviations... We heard of this ‘new light system’ being carried so far as to be adopted by a lady.
Hence New Lightism, new-light doctrines.
1755in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1916) LII. 78 He seems a grave, close heavy Man, not given to talk & deeply immerged in New Lightism. 1857P. Cartwright Autobiogr. 32 B. W. Stone stuck to his New Lightism. |