单词 | wee kirkers |
释义 | > as lemmasWee Kirkers e. the Wee Free Kirk: a nickname given to the minority of the Free Church of Scotland which stood apart when the main body amalgamated with the United Presbyterian Church to form the United Free Church in 1900. Hence Wee Frees, Wee Kirkers, the members of the ‘Wee Free’ church. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [noun] > Wee Free Wee Kirkers1904 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > a party > [noun] > minority group lunatic fringe1913 Wee Frees1953 1904 Monthly Rev. Oct. 5 The Free Kirk and the ‘Wee’ Kirk. 1904 Times 31 Dec. 8/1 The funds must be handed over to the remnant of the old Free Church—the ‘Wee Frees’, as Scotland nicknames them. 1905 P. W. Wilson Why we believe v. 61 Scotland is convulsed because the property of the United Free Church has been handed over by a court of law to a remnant of Wee Kirkers. 1953 Earl Winterton Orders of Day viii. 92 In 1919..both the Labour and Liberal Oppositions were small and ineffective. The latter, facetiously known as the ‘Wee Frees’..split into two halves led by Sir Donald Maclean and Mr. George Lambert respectively. 1966 Punch 20 July 123/3 His account of the way in which the Wahabis—the Calvinistic ‘wee frees’ of Islam—are surrendering to the worst of Western culture is a lively moral tale in itself. 1979 H. Wilson Final Term i. 10 The smell of power..was in their nostrils, for the first time since the ‘Wee Frees’, the Samuelite Liberals, had left the 1931 Coalition Government. < as lemmas |
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