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Scottish. Usually in plural. A member of the Relief Church (Relief Church n. at relief, n.2 compounds 2b). Now historical.
A member of a sect which arose in 1783, in the Relief Congregation, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, and became extinct in 1848 on the death of the…