Separatist Synonyms

sĕpər-ə-tĭst, sĕprə-, sĕpə-rā-
A person who dissents from the doctrine of an established church
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. separationist
  2. dissident
  3. dissenter
  4. heretic
  5. nonconformist
  6. schismatic
  7. sectarian
  8. sectary
Having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. breakaway
  2. fissiparous

Words Related to Separatist

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Separatist Sentence Examples

  • Some separatist churches were formed as a result of the Awakening; these either died out or became Baptist congregations.

  • Returning to England in September 1592, he joined the Separatist Church in London, in which he declined to take office, though after the arrest of the ministers, Francis Johnson and John Greenwood, he seems to have been the regular preacher.

  • The opposition which these innovations produced encouraged the separatist tendencies of the eastern portion of the Peninsula.

  • The " Dopper " Church, an offshoot of the Separatist Reformed Church of Holland, is distinguished from the other Dutch churches in being more rigidly Calvinistic and " Biblical," and in not using hymns.

  • The old separatist tendencies were increased by the widening gulf between the interests of the industrial north and those of the agricultural south.

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