kjv-onlyer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone who asserts that the King James Version of the Bible is superior to all other English translations.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "The meaning that can be derived from the word itself is "without error." In other words, the Bible was given without error of any sort. Now, excepting KJV-onlyers, most inerrantists would limit inerrancy to the original writings, none of which currently exist."
- "(Seeing as how Erasmus was a Roman Catholic who set the Vulgate at a level where modern KJV-onlyers set it, he might have believed the Vulgate was perfect, so such texts absent from his Greek manuscripts probably were present in the original, in his thinking); […]"
- "[…] [As a side note, at least the first two in your list have people whose full-time job it is to hate them. I can't recall too many slams against the NASB, but I imagine that KJV-onlyers hate it.]"
Etymology
From KJV + only + -er.
Usage
Inflected Forms
KJV-onlyers (plural)
KJV-onlier (alternative)