New Lightern.
/ˌnjuː ˈlʌɪtə/, U.S. /ˈn(j)u ˈlaɪdər/ Christian Church. Now historical.
= new light n. 1a.
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1749 L. Pilkington Mem. (new ed.) II. 314 If..St. Paul had not behaved himself with more good Manners than our modern New Lighters, he would not have almost persuaded his Auditors to be Christians.
1883 Q. Rev. July 32 For once the same sentiment animated the Episcopalian and the Papist, the Presbyterian and the New Lighter, the Hanoverian and the Jacobite.
1884 Atlantic Monthly 54 247 ‘In the summer of 1741’, writes Ezra, ‘the New Lighters visited my Father incessantly’.
1996 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 26 Oct. b7 Many of the anti-Smith New Lighters were ired by the fact that McVea was being paid a regular stipend of $1000 for his service as the pastor's executive assistant.
2000 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (Nexis) 21 Apr. b1 Supporters of this reawakening, known as New Lighters, turned against the cold formality of the establishment.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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