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ANABAPTISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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 state
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Anabaptism" is a kind of...):
Protestantism (the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation)
Derivation:
Anabaptist (adherent of Anabaptism)