anabaptism
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- a Protestant movement in the 16th century that believed in the primacy of the Bible, baptised only believers, not infants, and believed in complete separation of church and stateType of Protestantism
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
An′a·bap′tism (…), noun
Origin: L. anabaptismus, Gr. ἀναβαπτισμός: cf. F. anabaptisme. See Anabaptize.
The doctrine of the Anabaptists.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54