Old Light

English

Proper noun

Old Light

1. (Christianity) 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.
   • 2012, Michael I. Meyerson, Endowed by Our Creator: The Birth of Religious Freedom in America, Yale University Press, →ISBN:

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

Coordinate terms

• New Light

Derived terms

• Old Lighter

Noun

Old Light (plural Old Lights)

1. A member of such a religious movement.