Old Light

proper noun

A relatively traditional, conservative religious movement, especially (historical) the religious movement consisting of the seceders from the Church of Scotland who continued to hold unchanged the principle of the connection between church and state, the position maintained by the first seceders in 1733.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. ChristianityA relatively traditional, conservative religious movement, especially (historical) the religious movement consisting of the seceders from the Church of Scotland who continued to hold unchanged the principle of the connection between church and state, the position maintained by the first seceders in 1733.

    Because many of the New Light Baptist churches were not recognized by the Old Light Baptists, these endorsements were often impossible to obtain.

    2012, Michael I. Meyerson, Endowed by Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America, Yale University Press, →ISBN
nounOld Light (plural Old Lights)

plural Old Lights

  1. A member of such a religious movement.
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APA

Old Light. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Old%20Light

MLA

“Old Light.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Old%20Light. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Old Light,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Old%20Light.

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