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Pentecostalist, n. and a.|pɛntɪˈkɒstəlɪst|
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
A. n. A member of any Pentecostal sect; an adherent of the Pentecostal movement.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to Pentecostalism.
1925Forum (N.Y.) Feb. 152 ‘Pentecostalists’ brought to light our partial neglect of the Holy Ghost. 1928Amer. Mercury Oct. 190/1 The epic case of Holy Roller healing is that of the Rev. David Wesley Myland of the Latter Rain Pentecostalists. 1956Gordon Rev. Dec. 131 The Pentecostalists assert that deliverance from physical sickness is provided for in the Atonement. 1958M. Argyle Relig. Behaviour iv. 34 The Baptists and other Evangelical groups were rather similar in 1850 to the Pentecostalists of today. Ibid. ix. 110 Boisen gives a case-study of a Pentecostalist leader who was an epileptic. 1961B. R. Wilson Sects & Society i. i. 18 Pentecostalist stress on the Pauline declarations. 1965Guardian 8 Sept. 4/3 The West Indian Pentecostalist sect drew most of its members from the lowest group of Jamaican working class. 1966Listener 26 May 754/2 If Pentecostalists improve their position and become house owners or land⁓lords, will they leave to join a middle-class denomination, or will they restructure their Pentecostalist beliefs, so that a sect becomes a denomination? 1979R. Blythe View in Winter ix. 300 I'm waiting [on God] not listening. Listening is Pentecostalist, and I find it very hard to do. |