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noun

Sabbatarian n.

One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week as holy, agreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in the Decalogue. Note: There were Christians in the early church who held this opinion, and certain Christians, esp. the Seventh-day Baptists, hold it now.

A strict observer of the Sabbath.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sabbatarian" Quotes from Famous Books

... trouble to walk out one Sunday afternoon to the little trellis-covered house, a mile and a half away from the town, and discovered the junior partner in his shirt-sleeves rolling the gravel of the back-garden. Boult, a strict Sabbatarian, was more than a little shocked to observe that breach of decorum. The fact that the back-garden was not overlooked, set his mind at rest, however. "We've got to be careful about such things. Customers ...

— Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann

... is blind to the humane. Its scrupulous ritualisms have dried up its philanthropy. It thinks more of etiquette than equity. It esteems genuflexions more than generosity. It values the husk more than the kernel. It is Sabbatarian but not humanitarian. My God, deliver me from all pious conventionalities which make me indifferent to the ailments ...

— My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year • John Henry Jowett

Words linked to "Sabbatarian" : Judaism, Sabbath