restorationistn.adj.

1805 Monthly Rev. Mar. 248 Papists, Baptists, Universal Restorationists, and Unitarians, will object to certain parts.

1834 Dean in B. B. Edwards' Encycl. Relig. Knowl. (1851) 1018 Though the Restorationists, as a separate sect, have arisen within a few years, their sentiments are by no means new.

1892 Critic (N.Y.) 1 Oct. 177/2 He is a restorationist and this optimistic view..imparts a certain tinge to his handling of all themes.

1917 E. Griffith-Jones Faith & Immortality 249 Restorationists again dwell with emphasis on the saving purpose of Jesus, and find it hard to believe that it can possibly fail in the end.

1998 Church Hist. 67 56 Its agents often fought with the more populist evangelicals; both these parties battled new entries in the field such as restorationists and Universalists.

2001 A. L. Bressler Universalist Movement in Amer. ii. 43 Restorationists thus attempted to solve two prominent objections to Universalism—that it left justice unsatisfied and that it ignored human free agency.

1847 G. P. R. James Russell I. xvii. 265 He was a republican in Cromwell's days; a vehement restorationist under the present King.

1901 Methodist Mag. & Rev. Aug. 144/1 He is a great admirer of Cromwell and the men of the Commonwealth, and has often expressed his strong disgust at the degrading conduct of the Restorationists.

1993 R. L. Peterson Preaching in Last Days 212 Such an interpretation sent a powerful message to the ecclesial-political restorationists of Charles II.

1999 K. P. Phillips Cousins' Wars (2000) vii. 304 Whereas the Restorationists had used the Clarendon Codes to suppress Puritanism, late eighteenth-century imperial strategists had different, ecumenical objectives.

1860 Law Mag. & Law Rev. 10 110 We have already considered the Masters of the Bench in various capacities—as church restorationists—as financiers and directors of legal education—as electors to their own bench—as editors of hymn-books, and incidentally as performing other functions more or less inefficiently.

1880 Scribner's Monthly July 466 Not any of its towers have escaped, where ‘restorationist's’ chisel could cut.

1960 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 19 117/2 Robert Trump of Flourtown, Pa., collector of, and dealer in, antique hardware and woodwork, is one of the pioneer restorationists on Society Hill, Philadelphia.

1998 Indianapolis Star 25 Jan. i. 7/4 Minnie Driver plays a stained-glass restorationist who gets caught up in the action, and Randy Quaid is the sheriff.

1941 I. N. Gabrielson Wildlife Conservation ix. 116 From the restorationist's point of view it was a fine job. But the deer did not stop increasing.

1988 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 2 Feb. 17 Cooperation with industry, technologists, and governmental agencies seems to be one of the hallmarks of today's restorationists.

2004 Denver Post (Nexis) 19 July a1 Ecological restorationists are planting prairie cottonwoods and peach-leaved willows in an effort to return the Platte's natural vegetation.

1828 Olive Branch & Christian Inquirer 24 May 26 (heading) Prospectus of the restorationist review.

1898 Amer. Jrnl. Theol. 2 454 Shakespeare..was neither evolutionist nor restorationist.

1917 E. Y. Mullins Christian Relig. in Doctrinal Expression xvii. 498 In concluding this reply to the restorationist interpretation of the New Testament, two or three general statements should be made.

1979 Summary of World Broadcasts Pt. 3: Far East (B.B.C.) 3 Mar. FE/6057/B11/3 The ‘restorationist’ group which emerged after the defeat of the revolution in 1905..came from the Left to oppose Lenin's correct line.

1985 A. Walker Restoring Kingdom ii. 40 Wallis's vision was Restorationist but without the discipleship doctrines that were to become such a hallmark of the mature movement.

2006 J. A. Varacalli Catholic Experience in Amer. vii. 50 The restorationist goals of bringing a dynamic orthodoxy back into the Church.