ANABAPTIST

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• ANABAPTIST (noun)
  The noun ANABAPTIST has 1 sense:

1. adherent of Anabaptism

  Familiarity information: ANABAPTIST used as a noun is very rare.

• ANABAPTIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Adherent of Anabaptism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Anabaptist" is a kind of...):

Protestant (an adherent of Protestantism)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Anabaptist"):

Mennonite (a member of an Anabaptist movement in Holland noted for its simplicity of life)

Holonyms ("Anabaptist" is a member of...):

Anabaptist denomination (a Protestant sect denying infant baptism and baptising only believers)

Derivation:

Anabaptism (a Protestant movement in the 16th century that believed in the primacy of the Bible, baptised only believers, not infants, and believed in complete separation of church and state)