sacheverellian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to Henry Sacheverell (1674–1724), English high-church Anglican clergyman.
noun
A supporter of Henry Sacheverell and his preaching.
Example Sentences
- "The Parson of our Parish is one of those modern High-Churchmen who carry the Doctrine of Passive Obedience higher than ever the Sacheverellians did ;"
- "I do not find how his excellency can be justly censured for favouring none but high-church, high-flyers, termagants, laudists, sacheverellians, tip-top-gallon-men, jaocobites, tantivys, anti-hanoverians, friends to popery and the pretender and to arbitrary power, disobligers of England, breakers of DEPENDENCY, inflamers of quarrels between the two nations, public incendiaries, enemies to the king and kingdoms, haters of TRUE protestants, laurel-men, annists, complainers of the nation's poverty, ormondians, iconoclasts, anti-glorious-memorists, anti-revolutioners, white-rosalists, tenth-a-junians, and the like; when, by a fair state of the account, the balance, I conceive, seems to lie on the other side."
- "The new school were not only called Puseyites, but, after the old Nonjurors whom they resembled, Sacheverellians and Altitudinarians."
- "He points out that there is not '... one Athieist, Deist, Sceptic, Unitarian, Quaker, or scarce one Dissenting Protestant punished', whereas '...the Beggarly, idle, and loose people of both Sexes are generally speaking all High Church, and zealous Sacheverellians'."
Etymology
From Sacheverell + -ian.