Darbyite

plural Darbyites

1. A member of the Exclusive Brethren.

   The Darbyites argued against the war on national, cultural, grounds and the Cobdenites on international and civilizational.

   2011, Jozef Bátora, Monika Mokre, Culture and External Relations: Europe and Beyond, page 30

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   The Darbyite quietly assumes that Christ is not ashamed to call his party brethren, and that He would be thoroughly ashamed to apply the name to any one else.

   1873, The United Presbyterian magazine, page 501

   The "sad step," Mr. Howard states, was that of belonging to a "gathering" at Peckham, whose members had all been turned out from the fold of the Brethren by the act of a small clique of leading Darbyites.

   1875, James Grant, The Plymouth Brethren: Their History and Heresies, page 89

comparative more Darbyite · superlative most Darbyite

1. Pertaining to Darbyism.

   The "conservatives,", those who accept neither the "higher criticism" of the Bible nor the Darbyite doctrine, are ignored completely.

   2016, Tim LaHaye, Who Will Face the Tribulation?

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   Government restrictions imposed on the independent churches of Germany during the Nazi régime led to a forced union of Darbyite, Baptist and independent Brethren churches in a Bund, together with some other minor groups.

   1968, Frederick Roy Coad, A History of the Brethren Movement

   In typical Darbyite fashion, Franson preached that a pretribulationist secret rapture would precede the appearance of the personal Antichrist.

   1987, Fides Et Historia