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ˈsingularist
[f. singular a. + -ist.]
†1. One who differs from others, or from what is generally accepted; one who affects singularity.
1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. ii. 101 One vnlearned Singularist hath more in him, then ten learned Precisians. 1596Nashe Saffron Walden Wks. (Grosart) III. 66 Some smirking singularists, brag Reformists, and glicking Remembrancers..seeke to be masons of infinite contradiction. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 45 The private faults, opinions, conceits of Factionists, Singularists, or so, bee Fathered upon the Church. a1677Barrow Serm. xxxiv. (1686) III. 378 Men not enduring to be termed..a clownish singularist, or non-conformist to ordinary usage, a stiff opiniatre.
2. Eccl. One who holds a single benefice, as contrasted with a pluralist. rare.
1799Mornington in Stanhope Life Pitt III. 192 To make my brother Gerald a fat pluralist: he is at present a meagre singularist. 1832Fraser's Mag. V. 550 The effect..will be..to make the rich and influential clergyman a pluralist, and keep the poorer class singularists probably for life. |