| 单词 | softshell baptist |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoftshell Baptist softshell Baptist n. U.S. (now historical) a Baptist holding relatively liberal views.Opposed to hardshell Baptist n. at hardshell adj. and n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1844 Home Missionary Mag. Dec. 184/2 The Baptists here are divided into two parties, called Anti-missionary and Missionary, or ‘Hardshell’ and ‘Softshell’ Baptists. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 241 Such are the Soft Shell Baptists, so called on account of their less stern manners and less rigid principles. 1915 L. A. Harding Hist. Decatur County, Indiana viii. 213 Missionary work, and even Sunday schools, have been opposed in Baptist churches in the past, and thus have arisen ‘Hardshell’ and ‘Softshell’ Baptists. 1996 P. Conn Pearl S. Buck i. 2 They represented all the major Protestant denominations: Congregationalists, Methodists, hardshell and softshell Baptists, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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