freedomite
/ˈfɹidəmaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Freedomite.
noun
A member of a Christian zealot sect that split off from the Doukhobors, and which was involved in protests against certain policies of the Canadian government during the early to mid 20th century; the Doukhobors were a non-Orthodox religious group which emigrated from Russia to Canada at the end of the 19th century to escape persecution.
Canadian usage
Example Sentences
- "If we remember rightly there was a strong effort made to class Mr. Beecher as a Social freedomite, and free-lover, but the attempt was a failure; but had it been done, we do not think the names of Beecher and Tilton would have been mentioned in this lecture, but rather would they have been held up to the world as the patron saints of the Social Freedom movement."
- "So it does seem, after all, by the lady's own statement, that a promiscuous person can be a social freedomite."
- "The eyes of the public are being opened toward those grafters who are preying on the gullibility of the sick and bed-ridden humanity. [...] [T]hey have banded together, and under the guise of injured innocence they bob up again as exponents of "medical freedom." [...] The medical freedomite officers are the proselytes of the medical fake nostrums who, like the vultures, live on the carcasses of incurable diseases."
- "A notorious "industrial freedomite" will begin publication of a daily in Santa Barbara. The officers of No. 349, after interviewing the promoter and hearing his defiant declaration that he would run an "open shop," presented the facts to the Santa Barbara Union at the regular meeting on April 13, 1913, when the union decided unanimously that union men will not be permitted to work on the paper."
- "They [the Freedomites] have no deep-down objection to education, but a child who learns his lessons in English instead of Russian, and who rubs shoulders with some other race of youngsters, is liable to get some of the "Freedomite" edges rubbed smooth. The children are said to be communal, and that he is—allegedly—a wise Freedomite who knows his own father."
- "I think the house will find it interesting to know that 124 Freedomites served as volunteers during World War II."
Etymology
From freedom + -ite (suffix forming nouns denoting adherents or followers of a specified doctrine, idea, movement, person, etc.), a calque of Russian Свободник (Svobodnik), from свобо́да (svobóda, “freedom, liberty”) + -ник (-nik, suffix creating masculine nouns, usually denoting a professional, performer, adherent, place, object, tool or a feature).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɹidəmaɪt/
- British English: /ˈfɹiːdəmaɪt/