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familist

noun

Etymology

From family + -ist.

  1. derived from familia
  2. inherited from famylye
  3. suffixed as familist — “family + ist”

Definitions

  1. A member of the Family of Love religious group in 16th-century England.

    • Like Francis Bacon, Familists believed that men and women might recapture on earth the state of innocence which existed before the Fall: their enemies said they claimed to attain the perfection of Christ.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA