Familist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A member of the Family of Love religious group in 16th-century England. historical

    "Like Francis Bacon, Familists believed that men and women might recapture on earth the state of innocence which existed before the Fall: their enemies said they claimed to attain the perfection of Christ."

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"Like Francis Bacon, Familists believed that men and women might recapture on earth the state of innocence which existed before the Fall: their enemies said they claimed to attain the perfection of Christ."

Etymology

From family + -ist.

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family of love

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