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Whitefieldian, Whitfieldian, n. and a.|ˈhwaɪt-, ˈhwɪtfiːldɪən|
[f. proper name Whitefield or Whitfield + -ian.]
a. n. A follower of George Whitefield; a Calvinistic Methodist.
b. adj. Of or belonging to George Whitefield or the Whitefieldians. So Whit(e)ˈfieldianism, ˈWhit(e)fieldism, the system or doctrines of the Whitefieldians; ˈWhit(e)fieldite, a Whitefieldian.
1744in G. T. S. Farquhar Three Bps. Dunkeld (1915) I. xi. 94 He is looked upon by Lyon at Perth..as a Whitefieldian. 1748St. James' Even. Post Oct., Hamburg... A new set of Methodists (much like our Whitefieldites). 1786Told Life 87, I treated him with ridicule and contempt, he being a Whitfieldite. 1879Gladstone Glean. VII. 224 Whitfieldism on the one hand, and the clericalism of the eighteenth century on the other. 1885Scribner's Mag. XXX. 390/1 Puritanism, quakerism, and what may be comprehensively called Whitefieldism. 1915G. T. S. Farquhar Three Bps. Dunkeld I. xi. 94 A..discourse..upon the Christian doctrine of Justification (evidently intended to test his Whitefieldianism). |