单词 | come-outer |
释义 | come-outern. U.S. A member of an abolitionist dissenting religious sect. Hence: a reformer; a dissident; a person who withdraws from an organization, institution, etc., as a result of religious or political principles. Occasionally attributive. Now historical.The term was first applied to U.S. abolitionists, led by William Lloyd Garrison (1805–79), who refused to belong to a church, or participate in a government, which tolerated slavery. It derives from 2 Corinthians 6.17: ‘Come out from among them, and bee yee separate, and touch not the uncleane thing’ (King James Bible). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > sectarianism > [noun] > person sectator?1541 sectary1558 sectare1563 sectuary1592 disjunctive1596 separator1607 swermer1607 swermerian1607 separatist1608 sectist1612 separate1612 opinionist1613 separistc1616 seeker1617 sectarist1618 sectarian1827 come-outer1840 denominationalist1870 disjunctionist1872 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > one who is separated or isolated > one outside conventional society beard1667 come-outer1840 pagan1841 Bohemian1843 Greenwich Villager1887 weirdie1894 outsider1907 white nigger1934 beardo1935 isolate1942 weirdo1955 beat1958 beatnik1958 boho1958 beatster1959 way out1959 hippie1966 rebetis1966 homeboy1967 peanut1968 Yippie1968 suedehead1970 Goth1986 grebo1987 hipster1989 1840 H. W. Longfellow Let. 18 Oct. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1886) I. xxi. 360 A new sect called the ‘Come-outers,’ who formed a holy alliance with the Transcendentalists. 1849 Liberator 5 Oct. 159/2 The American Union Missionary Association..is a come-outer body from the old pro-slavery American Board. 1860 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. 275 Independent thinkers, who pride themselves on their hostility to venerable shams, and their disregard of hoary conventionalities. I mean the comeouters. 1881 Harper's Mag. Feb. 386 Radical reformers, ‘come-outers’, revolutionists. 1922 Nation 1 Nov. 465/2 Colonel Brookhart, frankly a come-outer, a dangerous dissenter. 1952 Living Church 11 May 24/2 One wonders what a real come-outer Calvinist Puritan like Bunyan..would have said about this. 1983 J. R. McKivigan in A. M. Kraut Crusaders & Compromisers vii. 181 The most important religious abolitionist institutions of the 1840's and 1850's were the antislavery ‘come-outer’ congregations and sects. 2011 C. Faulkner Lucretia Mott's Heresy 6 Mott believed she could do more good as a member of the Society of Friends than as a religious come-outer. Derivatives ˌcome-ˈouterism n. the beliefs or practices of a come-outer; the dissenting movement of the come-outers. ΚΠ 1847 W. L. Garrison Let. 25 Aug. in W. P. Garrison & F. J. Garrison Life W. L. Garrison (1889) III. 202 A good deal of prejudice is cherished against me on account of my ‘infidelity’ and ‘come-outerism’. 1896 D. L. Leonard Cent. Congregationalism Ohio viii. 47 Come-outerism then flourished, which called upon the truly elect..to break loose from the Laodicean churches and form bodies by themselves. 2007 P. Hinks & J. McKivigan Encycl. Antislavery & Abolition I. 175 Antislavery come-outerism was not a single unified movement. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1840 |
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