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Irvingite
[ ur-ving-ahyt ]
noun
- a member of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
Example Sentences
His father was a merchant captain, and his mother a zealous Irvingite.
Irvingite, ėr′ving-īt, n. a popular name for a member of the so-called Catholic Apostolic Church.—n.
As, however, he had taken the sacramental “sealing” from Irvingite apostles, the court regarded this as proof of his having joined the party and so deposed him.126 11.
The Darbyites and Adventists.—Related on the one hand to Irvingism by their expectation of the immediately approaching advent and by their regarding themselves as the saints of the last time who would alone be saved, the Darbyites, on the other hand, by their absolute independentism form a complete contrast to the Irvingite hierarchism.
Like the engineer of the penny steamboat in the burlesque of Kenilworth, he "has very much to larn"; but this fact need not discourage him, any more than it did Mr. Henry Irving, according to Mr. Percy Fitzgerald's recently published book of Irvingite Recollections, at the commencement of his career.
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