Perfectistn.

1618 P. Holderus tr. J. van Oldenbarneveld Barneuel's Apol. sig. D Winberger is principall of the Perfectists, and you of the Arminians.

1630 G. Widdowes Schysmatical Puritan F ij b A Mechanicke..is receiued amongst the Perfectists for a lawfull preacher, if their non-Ecclesiasticall spirit calls him.

1658 W. Sanderson Compl. Hist. Life King Charles 149 The Perfectist: His purenesse is continuata perseverandi actio significans, never to sin after Baptism.

1830 E. B. Pusey Hist. Enq. ii. viii. 197 In 1700 an edict was renewed forbidding the preaching against the Pietists. ‘Since certain Lutheran preachers..toss about in many sermons..the false names of Pietists, Perfectists, new holy Quakers, and such like’.

1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic (1880) I. Introd. 68 A succession of sects—Waldenses, Albigenses, Perfectists..—waged perpetual..warfare with the power and depravity of the Church.

1904 E. P. Cheyney European Background of Amer. Hist. (1978) xii. 231 An almost indefinite number of..religious bodies arose during the middle years of the seventeenth century—Millenarians.., Familists, Perfectists, and others.

1968 Past & Present 41 82 Ten varieties of the ‘species’ [i.e. Puritans], including ‘the Separatist’..and ‘Loves-familist’ along with the more acceptable Sabbatarians and Perfectists.