Sacheverellian

English

Etymology

From Sacheverell +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Sacheverellian (comparative more Sacheverellian, superlative most Sacheverellian)

Of or relating to Henry Sacheverell (1674–1724), English high-church Anglican clergyman.

Noun

Sacheverellian (plural Sacheverellians)

A supporter of Henry Sacheverell and his preaching.
- 1737, "A Yeoman of Kent", “To the Author of the London Magazine”, in The London Magazine; Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, page 60:
  The Parson of our Parish is one of those modern High-Churchmen who carry the Doctrine of Passive Obedience higher than ever the Sacheverellians did ;
- 1784, Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, page 256:
  I do not find how his excellency can be justly censured for favouring none but high-church, high-flyers, termagants, laudists, sacheverellians, tip-top-gallon-men, jaocobites, tantivys, anti-hanoverians, friends to popery and the pretender and to arbitrary power, disobligers of England, breakers of DEPENDENCY, inflamers of quarrels between the two nations, public incendiaries, enemies to the king and kingdoms, haters of TRUE protestants, laurel-men, annists, complainers of the nation's poverty, ormondians, iconoclasts, anti-glorious-memorists, anti-revolutioners, white-rosalists, tenth-a-junians, and the like; when, by a fair state of the account, the balance, I conceive, seems to lie on the other side.
- 1899, Eugene Stock, The History of the Church Missionary Society:
  The new school were not only called Puseyites, but, after the old Nonjurors whom they resembled, Sacheverellians and Altitudinarians.
- 2006, Stephen Lalor, Matthew Tindal, Freethinker, page 85:
  He points out that there is not '... one Athieist, Deist, Sceptic, Unitarian, Quaker, or scarce one Dissenting Protestant punished', whereas '...the Beggarly, idle, and loose people of both Sexes are generally speaking all High Church, and zealous Sacheverellians'.