Princeiten.adj.
/ˈprɪnsʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈprɪnˌsaɪt/ Now historical.
A follower of the Rev. Henry James Prince (1811–99), or a member of the religious sect founded by him in the mid 19th cent.; an Agapemonite (see Agapemone n.). Occasionally as adj. (in form Princite): of, belonging to, or relating to this sect.
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1849 Daily News 30 June 4/4 The transcendental mystical notions which seem to form the staple of the Princite creed.
1860 Times 18 May 5/6 About six years ago Mr. Lewis Price, a clergyman and a Welshman, joined the Princeites.
1874 in J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects. (at cited word) Princeites... A small sect established around the year 1840 by a fanatic clergyman of the extreme Evangelical school named Henry James Prince, and professing to be a new dispensation of the Holy Ghost, in Prince's person, by which the dispensation of Christ is superseded.
1902 Daily Chron. 9 Sept. 5/2 The Princeites, in whose Ark of the Covenant at Clapton on Sunday evening the Second Coming of Christ was claimed to be realised, are the disciples of the late Rev. Henry James Prince.
1902 Daily Chron. 9 Sept. 5/2 The..tenets of the Princeites and the rumoured life of the Agapemone were severely criticised by Hepworth Dixon in his ‘Spiritual Wives’, in 1868.
1997 Eng. Hist. Rev. 112 240 Case-studies of sectarian religious communities (Unitarians, Swedenborgians, Princeites) show that earnest Christians of the period could sometimes be ambivalent in their perspective on sexual codes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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