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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A supporter of English Quaker Isaac Crewdson and his book A Beacon to the Society of Friends, which claimed that too much emphasis was placed by Quakers on the Inner Light at the expense of Biblical authority. historical

Etymology

From beacon + -ite.

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