Scripturist

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noun

Someone who is strongly attached to, or versed in, the Scriptures, or who endeavours to live by them.

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Meanings

nounScripturist (plural Scripturists)

plural Scripturists

  1. Someone who is strongly attached to, or versed in, the Scriptures, or who endeavours to live by them.

    The Puritan was a Scripturist,—a Scripturist with all his heart, if, as yet, with imperfect intelligence. […] [H]e cherished the scheme of looking to the Word of God as his sole and universal directory.

    1858, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter VII, in History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty. […], volume I, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, book I, page 274

Origin

From Scripture + -ist.

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