Meanings
nounNewmanite (plural Newmanites)
plural Newmanites
- historicalA follower of the doctrines of John Henry Newman; hence, up to his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1845, a member of the Oxford movement.
Russell told Archbishop Howley that the opposition consisted of clergy who shared Newman’s opinions, but had not the honesty to follow Newman to the Church of Rome. […] Howley tried vainly to correct the simple view that the remonstrants were Newmanites.
1966, Owen Chadwick, The Victorian Church, volume 1, page 240
Origin
From Newman + -ite, after the prominent Tractarian John Henry Newman.
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