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Beaconite

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Etymology

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From beacon +‎ -ite.

Noun

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Beaconite (plural Beaconites)

  1. (historical) A supporter of English Quaker Isaac Crewdson and his book A Beacon to the Society of Friends, which claimed that too much emphasis was placed by Quakers on the Inner Light at the expense of Biblical authority.
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