Freedomite
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Alternative letter-case form of Freedomite. alt-of
"If we remember rightly there was a strong effort made to class Mr. Beecher as a Social freedomite, and free-lover, but the attempt was a failure; but had it been done, we do not think the names of Beecher and Tilton would have been mentioned in this lecture, but rather would they have been held up to the world as the patron saints of the Social Freedom movement."
- 2 A member of a Christian zealot sect that split off from the Doukhobors, and which was involved in protests against certain policies of the Canadian government during the early to mid 20th century; the Doukhobors were a non-Orthodox religious group which emigrated from Russia to Canada at the end of the 19th century to escape persecution. Canada, also, attributive, historical
"They [the Freedomites] have no deep-down objection to education, but a child who learns his lessons in English instead of Russian, and who rubs shoulders with some other race of youngsters, is liable to get some of the "Freedomite" edges rubbed smooth. The children are said to be communal, and that he is—allegedly—a wise Freedomite who knows his own father."
- 3 A member of the Dominica Freedom Party. also, attributive
"Although unable to make inroads into the Labor government until this election, the Freedomites stalled land reform, thwarting the socialist ideology of the party in power."
- 4 One who advocates for freedom in various contexts. also, attributive, dated
"To what terrible straits the Freedomites, men who persist in their efforts to exercise the right to pervert Homœopathy into Eclecticism, are driven, becomes apparent by this last public effort of the Editor of a Quarterly Journal (professedly a Homœopathic periodical) to make it appear that [Samuel] Hahnemann himself favoured that freedom of medical opinion and action which, as history shows, emboldened its advocates, till finally they denounced our Law of Cure, called it a good rule at times, to be embodied merely as one of the many expedients resorted to by the Eclectic School."
Example
More examples"If we remember rightly there was a strong effort made to class Mr. Beecher as a Social freedomite, and free-lover, but the attempt was a failure; but had it been done, we do not think the names of Beecher and Tilton would have been mentioned in this lecture, but rather would they have been held up to the world as the patron saints of the Social Freedom movement."
Etymology
From freedom + -ite (suffix forming nouns denoting adherents or followers of a specified doctrine, idea, movement, person, etc.), a calque of Russian Свободник (Svobodnik), from свобо́да (svobóda, “freedom, liberty”) + -ник (-nik, suffix creating masculine nouns, usually denoting a professional, performer, adherent, place, object, tool or a feature).
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