Zionite

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of any of various Protestant Christian religious sects, the most notable of which were the Zionites of Wuppertal and the Christ Community Church of Zion, Illinois.

    ""A further movement of this period is a more localized effort by Christians known as Zionites. The center of the Zionite movement was Drammen where Søren Bølle arrived as an immigrant from Denmark in 1737."

  2. 2
    A Zionist. dated

    ""This is the return of the Jews to their ancient home in Palestine--the Zionite movement, as it is called.""

Example

More examples

""A further movement of this period is a more localized effort by Christians known as Zionites. The center of the Zionite movement was Drammen where Søren Bølle arrived as an immigrant from Denmark in 1737."

Etymology

From Zion + -ite.

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