Urbaniten.1adj.1
/ˈəːbənʌɪt/, /ˈəːbn̩ʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈərbəˌnaɪt/ Church History.
A. n.1
= Urbanist n.1 1. Now rare.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > individual popes > [noun] > supporter of Urban VI
Urbanist1523
Urbanite1827
1827 Lady Morgan O'Briens & O'Flahertys IV. 216 It was she who gave the victory to the Urbanites over the Clementines.
1878 J. E. Butler Catharine of Siena viii. 280 The Archbishop of Naples, Bossuti, an Urbanite,..had lived in concealment since the Queen had declared herself the partisan of Clement.
1967 Speculum 42 504 Bartolommeo de Zabriciis, the Bishop of Rouen and a strong Urbanite.
B. adj.1
= Urbanist adj. 1.
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1864 E. S. tr. T. Griesinger Myst. Vatican II. v. ii. 203 Clement..had every suspected Urbanite priest in the kingdom of Naples burnt or hung.
1890 Q. Rev. 170 458 Clement protected and believed in the Urbanite Count of Vertus, and hoped to gain him to his side.
1919 C. Vince Eng. in France vii. 149 England was Urbanite, so it would appear, for the very secular reason that the French were Clementists.
2006 D. S. Chambers Popes, Cardinals, & War ii. 34 Urbanite supporters in northern Europe also invoked force on his behalf.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
urbaniten.2adj.2
/ˈəːbənʌɪt/, /ˈəːbn̩ʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈərbəˌnaɪt/ A. n.2
A person who lives in a town or city.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun]
borough-manc1000
city mana1400
townsman1433
town manc1475
town dweller1484
oppidan?1548
burgher?1555
townsfolk1562
townsfolk1592
townswoman1612
town liver1620
town folk1679
citess1685
citizeness1754
citizette1798
townie1825
urban1835
townskip1837
townsperson1840
urbanite1892
burgheress1901
1892 Davenport (Iowa) Tribune 20 Nov. (heading) A lucky urbanite.
1897 Advance (Chicago) 29 Apr. 542/1 They will capture streets.., will say to urbanites and suburbanites, ‘Stand and deliver.’
1927 Irish Rosary July 508 All comes from splendid organizing, bringing peasants, villagers, townsmen and urbanites to meet..and work with bishops, priests, university men.
1979 Church Times 29 June 10 I was..only doing what hundred of thousands of other Londoners do every day, as do urbanites in other big cities.
1998 I. A. Steffensen-Bruce Marble Palaces, Temples of Art iii.85 Nowhere could a better case be made for a city in need of recreational open spaces, and by the 1850's, this fact was apparent to even the most rabid urbanite.
B. adj.2
Of, relating to, or characteristic of urbanites; that lives in a town or city.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [adjective]
civil1559
citizena1616
civic1655
burgherly1762
citizenly1792
citizenish1821
urbanite1899
1899 Liverpool Mercury 7 Apr. 7/9 This in itself will hardly strengthen the urbanite case at the county council inquiry.
1916 R. Fullerton 20th Cent. Unlimited 48 The urbanite consumer demands service, personal service.
1958 R. V. Chase Democratic Vista 16 He [sc. the bourgeois intellectual] was typically urbanite (at least in spirit) and if he was married, he and his wife had decided from the beginning that they would have no children.
1982 D. Lowenthal in B. R. Barber & M. J. G. McGrath Artist & Polit. Vision (1983) xv. 346 Orwell denies that interest in natural things is..an urbanite luxury.
2000 Independent 10 June ii. 3/2 The people most likely to pay for it are the urbanite second-homers who want to live in it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1adj.11827
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