单词 | reunionist |
释义 | reunionistn.adj. A. n. A supporter or advocate of reunion between disunited factions, nations, etc.; esp. (also with capital initial) an advocate of the reunion of Protestants (esp. Anglicans) with the Roman Catholic Church. Cf. reunificationist n. at reunification n. Derivatives.In quot. 1801 referring to the legislative union of England and Ireland, the Act for which was passed on 1 January 1801. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > Reunionism > [noun] > person reunionist1801 1801 F. Higgins Let. 15 Nov. in T. Bartlett Revolutionary Dublin (2004) 330 The Re-Unionists Club is augmenting their test, and regulations have been prepared by Counsellors Charles Ball, Goold, Plunket, Lawson, Kavanaugh etc., etc. 1831 Times 16 June 1/6 The people of Hainault, Liege, and Limburg, are reunionists. 1866 T. N. Harper Peace through Truth 1st Ser. p. xcii The difficulties which beset the Reunionists in their chimerical efforts, multiply. 1900 H. Clews Wall Street Point of View xxxii. 249 The study of the influence of that reunion [sc. Anglo-American] on the financial affairs and prosperity of the proposed reunionists. 1952 J. P. Stern tr. R. W. Meyer Leibnitz & 17th-Cent. Revol. 194 (note) 1683, March: Spinola's second visit; convention of the reunionists in Hanover. 1983 C. M. Hibbard Charles I & Popish Plot viii. 172 Catholic reunionists..who minimized the differences between the Churches of England and Rome in the 1630s confirmed the suspicions of many that Laud was ‘soft on popery’. 2007 C. Buchanan in C. McCracken-Flesher Culture, Nation, & New Sc. Parl. 66 The moderate nationalist government..finds itself..under attack from republicans on the one hand, and re-unionists on the other. B. adj. Advocating or supporting reunion, esp. that of Protestants with the Roman Catholic Church; (also) of or relating to reunionists. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > Reunionism > [adjective] Reunionistic1867 reunionist1868 1868 Christian Remembrancer Jan. 229 We suppose our Reunionist friends, low as their opinion may be of the Anglican Church, consider that..she is a portion of Christendom. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 10 Jan. 2/1 The Cardinal and his friends have..inflicted a signal discomfiture on the ‘reunionist’ party. 1944 Jrnl. Warburg & Courtauld Inst. 7 132 A later and less well-known reunionist theologian was Georg Cassander... His ideas influenced..the reunionist trend in France. 1979 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 62 41 Traditional accounts of the Liberal movement have generally followed one of two interrelated lines of thought, which may be labelled ‘Reunionist’ and ‘Reformist’. 2006 W. Kaufman Civil War in Amer. Culture 154 It is a proposal wholly in keeping with the romantic reunionist sentiments of the Civil War centenary. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Anglicanism > Reunionism > [adjective] Reunionistic1867 reunionist1868 1867 Ess. on Reunion 210 The Bishop of Oxford..quoting in support of his thoroughly Re-unionistic sentiments the remarkable 30th Canon of 1603. 1883 Sat. Rev. 56 110 The religious and especially—if the word may be allowed—the Reunionistic movements of the age. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1801 |
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