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Dopper
/ ˈdɒpə /
noun
- (in South Africa) a member of the most conservative Afrikaner Church, which practises a strict Calvinism
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Dopper1
C19: from Afrikaans, of unknown origin
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Example Sentences
I went to see this reverend pastor, who is professor of a school of Dopper theology.
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Just opposite stands the little chapel of the so-called Dopper sect in which he occasionally preaches.
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The young Dopper warmly grasped the other, provoking a squeal from the enchantress.
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Of these the narrowest, most puritanical, and most bigoted was the Dopper sect, to which Kruger belonged.
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But there were kopjes ahead, sown with fierce Dopper Boers, and those tempting wagons were only to be reached over their bodies.
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